Unit 4615

Category: skeleton    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: skeleton 

Data Category Information: none

Discussion: an adult female. primary burial in space 163, building 6. Lying on it's right side, north to south, facing east.The fill around the body and the fill above contained large amount of mice bones, and complete weasel skeleton. The upper layer covered with yellowish residue, possibly owl pellet with lots of rodent bones.
The result of comparison of the fill in the cut and around the cut show that the rodent bones deliberately placed in the cut with unknown reason. 

X and Y of Targets: Target A - X: 0; Target A - Y: 0; Target B - X: 0; Target B - Y: 0; Target C - X: 0; Target C - Y: 0; Target D - X: 0; Target D - Y: 0 

Body: an adult burial, flexed 

Head: pushed towards chest 

Right Arm: bent with 90 degree angle under the body and hand is on the L. knee 

Left Arm: bent upwards, palm is facing up 

Right Leg: pulled up to the chest, against the cut 

Left Leg: pulled up to the chest, against the cut 

Other comments: there was 25cm x 25cm size red ochre on the chest area. Black staining (organic residue) in the rib cage. Burial was covered with a large amount of rodent bones 

Surface Modifications:  

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 4620 below: (Click to view the record) 4619 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 10

Number of Related Diary Entries: 2

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VIII 

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  

Lab Team Data

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