Unit 8988

Category: skeleton    dug in 2004

Area: TP 

Interpretive Categories: Post-chalcolithic human skeleton 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: 0.30 x 0.05 

Discussion: It is a single femur found within unit 8937 (next to its W edge) being one of two layers (lower one) of a large pit in S of an extension.
The pit cut was registered as unit 10908, upper layer as 7845 and lower- mentioned above- as 8937. This pit cuts a burial (sk.8989 placed in the layer 7820) destroying its lower part. The skeleton 8989 was also damaged by Mellaarts trenches.
It is then possible that this femur belongs to the individual explored as unit 8989.
In the base of cut 10908 another cut was dug -containing a burial (skeleton 10937, infill 10936, cut 10938) wit a ...diagonally placed mudbricks in the base of the cut 10908 and not directly above the burial cut by its N side .Because of the poor condition of the bone it was impossible to estimate wheter it was left on right of left femur. 

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:  

Head:  

Right Arm:  

Left Arm:  

Right Leg:  

Left Leg:  

Other comments: loose femur found in grave cut fill for large mudbrick-topped burial. Possibly belongs to earlier torso burial (sk.8989) which was truncated above pelvis by the later grave cut. 

Surface Modifications:  

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 8937 below: (Click to view the record) 10908 

Skeleton Same As: 8989

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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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