Unit 4458
Category: skeleton dug in 1999
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: skeleton
Data Category Information: none
Discussion: Primary burial of an 8 month old baby. Buried in a basket with lid. It is lying north to south-east with the legs apart. Disturbance by rodents was observed. There is a necklace which is possibly around the neck. Most of the beads are scattered and are made of red pigment and sea shells. Addition from the finds database: 'The stone beads are pink, orange/red, white and blue in colour'.
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: Baby in a basket lying on its back. Oriented North-south-east.
Head: Crushed
Right Arm: Opened to the side. Hand is near the pelvis.
Left Arm:
Right Leg: Flexed and opened to the side
Left Leg: Flexed and opened to the side
Other comments: Most of the bones have been moved by rodent activities especially the ribs, phalanges, mandible, scapulae.
Surface Modifications:
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VIII
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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