Unit 5169
Category: skeleton dug in 1999
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: skeleton
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: 0.86m w-e/ 0.55m n-s
Discussion: Crouched adult burial in a fairly small cut on the southern platform of building 17. There are 12 unfinished bone beads in a cluster between the arms. It might be the individuals work and put int a bag and placed in the grave. There is also a flat clay ball on the right foot.
X and Y of Targets: Target A - X: 922.01; Target A - Y: 967.78; Target B - X: 922.81; Target B - Y: 967.78; Target C - X: 0; Target C - Y: 0; Target D - X: 0; Target D - Y: 0
Body: An adult burial, crouched
Head: Pushed down to chest
Right Arm: Bend and hand is under the face
Left Arm: Straight on the body, hand is between the leg
Right Leg: Flexed
Left Leg: Flexed
Other comments: The bones are in a very bad condition. The cut base is an oven base so there are many inclusions such as charcoal, burned clay and etc in the fill. Associated Units: 5168 upper fill 5173 lower fill 5167 cut
Surface Modifications:
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 11
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 13
Number of Related Diary Entries: 1
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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Finds Room Information:
All material from site passes through the finds room for washing and separating before it is passed onto the various lab teams. The finds room keeps a basic inventory of what is found. A finds material type list is given here. Further analytical detail maybe provided by the Lab Team data below.
X Finds Material: nothing recorded
Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded
Lab Team Data
Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramic Records: No Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 12
Unit description: Opened only to record artifacts going to Konya Museum. This includes 12 imitation red deer wolf teeth made from long bone (X2-13).Figurine Records: No GroundStone Records: No Heavy Residue Records: No Microfaunal Records: No
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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