Unit 23238

Category: Skeleton    dug in 2017

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Skeleton 

Data Category Information: none

Description: Primary disturbed inhumation of juvenile individual. 

Discussion: Primary disturbed inhumation of juvenile individual.
The relative position of the postcranial boners (cranium-mandible missing) is consistent with a tight wrapping/containment at the moment of the deposition. Two main features charcaterizes this skeleton:
1) The missinng of the cranium-mandible, upper thorax, and complex shoulder-humerus (bilaterally) is consistenmt with the disturbance of this (and of skeleton 23237) by the pit represented by feature 8452.
2) A thin lens of red pigment (ochre??) covers the lower section of the skeleton (from the pelvis below). Interestingly, a thin (about 3 mm thickness) layer of red pigment is also underneath the bones and is apparently well-circumscribed in the W-E area of the cut. Altogether, these features could be due to a covering of the individual (at least thei lower part of the body) by pigment AT THE MOMENT of the deposition.
3) A subadult ( 2m-3y) right femur (badly preserved) was found in the burial space of sk. 23238. The meaning of this finding is at the moment discussed.
The S1 and S2 don't exist. 

X and Y of Targets: Target A - X: 924.24; Target A - Y: 970.22; Target B - X: 925.27; Target B - Y: 970.84; Target C - X: 925.74; Target C - Y: 969.93; Target D - X: 924.84; Target D - Y: 969.45 

Body:  

Head:  

Right Arm:  

Left Arm:  

Right Leg:  

Left Leg:  

Other comments: Medium preservation 

Surface Modifications: No 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 23242 below: (Click to view the record) 23235 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

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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