Unit 3368
Category: skeleton dug in 1998
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: skeleton
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: 0.55 E-W x 0.57 m N-S
Discussion: Tightly flexed young adult hands and feet located together which possibly suggests they were bound together. Lain on left side and tightly folded over so head rests on knees. Hands and feet pressed tightly against edge. Unusually cut is larger than the skeleton but as it was squashed towards the east leaves room to the west. I had originally wondered whether due to excess flesh - but that's a whole other debate - more likely to have been mis-deposited. During excavation several abnormal bones had been noticed - as well as the fact that total fusion of epiphysis had not taken place on all bones, however not until the lifting process was the full implication of these realised. Many bones were in a abnormal state - same bones fused before others and very spongy. Basically the human bone team declare this male skeleton diseased - which may explain which it was buried in this external space.
X and Y of Targets: Target A - X: 914.45; Target A - Y: 975.65; Target B - X: 914.42; Target B - Y: 474.9; Target C - X: 0; Target C - Y: 0; Target D - X: 0; Target D - Y: 0
Body: Tightly flexed lying on left side and then bent / folded over torso folded of midriff area, head face down on kneed to the East. Hands and feet located together at South end almost as if bound together,
Head:
Right Arm: right arm bent at almost 90 degrees lying across pelvis,
Left Arm: left arm bent at elbow below head
Right Leg: right leg fully flexed with knee at head end.
Left Leg: Left leg mirrors position of right leg
Other comments: Hands and feet tightly pressed against the edge of the unit, both patellae present, and located above head. Fits tightly against E + S side of cut though plenty of space left to West
Surface Modifications:
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 22
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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