Unit 2126
Category: skeleton dug in 1997
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: skeleton
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: 0.20 m long approx 0.10 m wide
Discussion: This disarticulated skull was the highest skeletal element in burial 47. Its smallish size and thin cranial bone thickness led Basak to suggest that it is a juvenile. It lay tucked underneath the undercut north eastern edge of the grave cut. Though no clear stratigraphic relationship between this skull and the adult bones of unit (1955) could be established (and so both have been put as being below fill 1982 and above fill 2124), it is probable that this skull was placed in the burial after some if not all of the adult bones had been deposited. An adult femur from skeleton 1955 was partially overlain by the skull. However, skull 2126 may have been earlier, and pushed to one side as 1955 was being inserted. During such a process, the femur could easily have been shoved underneath the earlier skull. The relationship between them must thus remain equivocal.
No clearly identifiable juvenile post-cranial remains could be identified during excavation, lab work may do so.
When this skull was lifted, it simply collapsed into a heap of barely articulating fragments. Not only had numerous small rootlets penetrated around, behind and through the skull, but a small mammal burrow had penetrated underneath the skull and had further disturbed the cranial bones.
The left ribs of skeleton 1955 were lying behind 2126 to the north and north east.
Condition: variable
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: n/a
Head: a very badly crushed and distorted skull, facing north and lying on its left hand side. Th facial bones in particlar appear to have been badly damaged, and the teeth of the upper mandible appear to have been compressed together
Right Arm: n/a
Left Arm: n/a
Right Leg: n/a
Left Leg: n/a
Other comments: Disarticulated Skull
Surface Modifications:
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit 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
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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: 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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