Unit 22620

Category: Skeleton    dug in 2015

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: primary 

Data Category Information: none

Discussion: Skeleton of mature individual of indeterminate sex was nearly complete except for missing cervical vertebrae and some right arm and left forearm, wrist, and hand bones which were removed by post-depositional taphonomic disturbance. Individual was lying prone in a flexed position with abdomen over tightly flexed lower limbs. Right hand and wrist were supinated between the spinal column and the midshaft right femur. A corroded native copper "ring" found under the right fingers had stained nearby bones green. "Strung" beads were found around both wrists and ankles, and a few were found in the neck region. It appears that this primary burial and sk. 22655 were placed in this cut in the same deposition event, since elements of disarticulated sk. 22655 rest directly on elements of 22620. A plaster slab of wall (multi-layer, with red paint) seems to have slid into this burial, partially covering the left leg and foot of sk. 22620. 

X and Y of Targets: Target A - X: 1047.14; Target A - Y: 1188.08; Target B - X: 1046.81; Target B - Y: 1188.56; Target C - X: 1047.37; Target C - Y: 1188.55; Target D - X: 1047.16; Target D - Y: 1189.31 

Body:  

Head:  

Right Arm:  

Left Arm:  

Right Leg:  

Left Leg:  

Other comments: Bones were dry, friable, and generally in poor condition 

Surface Modifications: Black lines on back of cranium due to root growth. Green staining on right hand bones and parts of right femur due to corrosion of beaten native copper "ring". 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 22627 below: (Click to view the record) 22655, 22623 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): ? 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

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