Unit 15739

Category: Skeleton    dug in 2007

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: burial 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Dimensions: 25 cm x 25 cm x 3 cm 

 

Discussion: Baby in midden, bent over itself with head and body bent over the legs and facing south. Left arm is flexed at elbow, upper arm at approximately 90 degrees to the body, lower arm at 90 degrees to the humerus and roughly aligned with the head and body. Right arm is tightly flexed with radius and ulna lying beneath the humerus, in alignment with the body. Left leg is extended at knee, bent at hip, distal end of leg near to the left of the head. Right leg under the body, with right femur crossing the vertebrae and right tibia going back under the cranium (knee is flexed). No burial cut, no sign of a basket, and a few animal bones mixed in with the pelvis and lower ribs, therefore baby was probably simply placed in the midden. 

 

X and Y of Targets: Target A - X: 937.52; Target A - Y: 957.7; Target B - X: 937.68; Target B - Y: 958.18; Target C - X: 0; Target C - Y: 0; Target D - X: 0; Target D - Y: 0 

Body: Facing downward on top of legs, oriented towards South 

Head: Facing downward on top of legs, oriented toward South. Cranium collapsed 

Right Arm: Facing down, bent at elbow with lower arm under upper arm. 

Left Arm: Humerus at an angle perpendicular to torso, bent at elbow with lower arm under upper arm. 

Right Leg: Extended to the side of torso, pointing South 

Left Leg: Under torso. Bent at knee, with femur pointing SW, and tibia pointing SE. 

Other comments: Neonate in midden, with body and head collapsed and bent over the legs. No visible cut for burial. 

Surface Modifications: Crushed 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 15743 below: (Click to view the record) 15720 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 8 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 299, 305

Features:: (Click to view the record) 2620 (burial)

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 contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramics Data for 2007 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 records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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