Unit 30511

Category: Skeleton    dug in 2013

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: primary 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Discussion: Neolithic infant burial associated with large quantity of textile: all the textile is attributed to the infill u.30503 except for cords S4 (cf. discussion of u.30503). It lays directly above a second child (u.30513). The textile is in between the two bodies (cf. u.30503)

The soft tissues are preserved. Mainly among the abdomen (viscera? S1) but also around the legs (S2) and the left arms (S3). The brain was also conserved in the cranium (S5).

Some cords around the legs were a little bit preserved (s4). They were probably holding the body in its flexed position.

The two greenstone beads X2 and X3 of the infill u.30503 may be associated with this skeleton. Indeed, they were in the two opposite sides of the cranium, symetrical. X3 was even in contact with textile and the cranium (but textile was not observed passing through the hole of the bead during the excavation…). Could these be some kind of earring associated with little infant ? Indeed the same pattern, two greenstone beads in both side of cranium were observed in the other platform od building 52 (f.3695, burial 7120).

The forehead of this skeleton was in direct contact with the forehead of the adult u.30514. A good argument for a single episode burial: one adult with babies on top of its left side. One of the adult's arms seems even to be positioned to hold them. 

 

X and Y of Targets: Target A - X: 1050.1; Target A - Y: 1172; Target B - X: 1049.13; Target B - Y: 1173.17; Target C - X: 1048.79; Target C - Y: 1171.32; Target D - X: 1047.5; Target D - Y: 1172 

Body:  

Head:  

Right Arm:  

Left Arm:  

Right Leg:  

Left Leg:  

Other comments: faire to good condition 

Surface Modifications: none 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 30502 below: (Click to view the record) 30503 

 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7

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: 6 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 52

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 94

Features:: (Click to view the record) 7127 (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 2013 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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