Unit 2772

Category: skeleton    dug in 1997

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: skeleton 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Dimensions: 0.31 m x NW-SE x 0.16 m max width x ca 0.10 m in depth 

 

Discussion: Infant burial at NW-SE alignment, with head at SE end. Extended and on its back, legs splayed, right leg bent and knee flat whilst left leg slightly bent at knee and raised, feet almost touching. Head appears to have been pushed down over chest, which has resulted in spinal column curved towards the east (not sure whether it is disarticulated). Between the ankles is a stone (2771, X1). The right upper arm lies along torso with the lower arm and hand below the right thigh.
The left upper arm lay below the rib cage with elbow bent and upper arm and hand on the rib cage (nice touch, hand over the heart!). Very occasional fragments of phytoliths, suggesting of being bound or trussed in matting, but no real evidence for this. 

 

Condition: cool mornings and hot days, dry 

X and Y of Targets: Target A - X: 907.26; Target A - Y: 979.77; Target B - X: 907.58; Target B - Y: 979.5; Target C - X: 0; Target C - Y: 0; Target D - X: 0; Target D - Y: 0 

Body: extended, lying on back 

Head: appears to have been disarticulated, skull lies crushed in rib cavity, mandible almost between the knees, no it would seem the head was pushed down not disarticulated. 

Right Arm: slightly bent at elbow, lies along left side of body into lower arm bones below left thigh 

Left Arm: left arm humerus lay below the ribs, bent at elbow with hand on the ribcage (hand on the heart!) 

Right Leg: comes out from below mandible, bent at knee with foot close to left foot 

Left Leg: thigh close to skull, bent vertically at knee with foot close to right foot 

Other comments: ribs slightly askew from alignment of lower body 

Surface Modifications:  

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2773 below: (Click to view the record) 2771 

 

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): VII 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 2 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 109

Features:: (Click to view the record) 264 (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

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 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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