Unit 10834
Category: skeleton dug in 2004
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: skull
Data Category Information: none
Discussion: NB / originally allocatec to post retrieval cut F.1705 from where it was excavated but in post ex reallocated to burial F.1711- for reason see publication 2012 (SF 29/04/11).
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skull contained within fill u. 10807 of cut u. 10808. These features are part of a post retrieval pit f. 1705 in which the skull was placed. Not far from the skull, in fill u. 10807 a bone object (needle ?, x find 2) was found, partly below the skull and lying on the edge of cut 10808. 10834 may derive from skeleton 10814, but this remains to be investigated.
The skull was clearly on top of plaster debris of the fill 10807 of this post retrieval pit, as well as being surrounded by it.
The skull could be matched to the jaw of 10814 in burial feature 1711. Some loose teeth in the western fill of 1711, fill unit 10837, could also be fitted in the skull. Two possibl scenarios how this could have happened:
First, at the time at which burial 1709 (above 1711) was cut some skeletal elements of 10814 were placed along the edge of 1709. It is possible that the skull was placed on the eastern edge of the cut 10830 of burial 1709, and was then encountered when post retrieval pit 1705 was cut, lifted, and then placed in this pit. This scenario seems unlikely to me given the distict matrix of the fill of 1705 (unit 10807) compared to that in the fill of 1709 (unit 10831). Second the skeletal elements of 10814 placed along the edge of 1709 seem to suggest that the two cut features touched, but that 1705 did not really disturb 1709.
Second, it is possible that at the time at which 1709 was cut (cut unit 10830) some elements of 10814 were put along the edge of this feature, but the skull was lifted and than placed in 1705. This scenario would imply that burial 1709 was put at approximately the same time that post retrieval pit 1705 was cut (it is ofcourse possible that skull 10834 was out in the 'open' for some time.
X and Y of Targets: Target A - X: 913; Target A - Y: 981.5; Target B - X: 913; Target B - Y: 981; Target C - X: 0; Target C - Y: 0; Target D - X: 0; Target D - Y: 0
Body: np
Head: head tilted upwards, facing northwest
Right Arm: np
Left Arm: np
Right Leg: np
Left Leg: np
Other comments: goes with skeleton 10814 of burial feature 1711.
Surface Modifications:
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Skeleton Same As: 10814
Dry sieve volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 1
Number of Related Diary Entries: 2
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII
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 Ceramics Data for 2004 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: No 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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