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| Area: North |
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| Dug in Year: 2002 |
| Feature Type: burial |
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| Location: southwest quadrant of space 87 |
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| Grid X: 1051.17 Grid Y: 1182.52 |
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A burial. Cut is not visible in the floor that is currently exposed. The bones of an infant are lying above and within a basket (phytoliths). The basket is in a relatively good condition although it is poorly preserved in its northern portion where the majority of the infant bones are. It appears to be the lid of the basket since some of the bones are covered by the intact phytoliths (for example some of the long bones). The basket continues towards the western portion of the space. The cut for the basket is in another level of the floor. There is an animal burrow along the western edge of the basket at the wall.
Information added 17/07/2012
The feature consists of an infant folded in a basket. It was discovered by the Bach team in 2002 who stabilized the basket and covered it for future excavation. The burial was disturbed by an animal burrow and some of the infants bone lay loose in the fill. As the burial was disturbed we decided not to try to lift the basekt in one piece in order to protect the undisturbed part of the infants bones as well as protect the bones of the other individual that lay directly under the basket, unit 8598. Some of the infants bones were undisturbed and some details of the infants position could be established, but the cranium was crushed to pieces. The spine was to the west and hands and one foot were found together. The long bones were not articulated. /SH |
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| In situ Conservation: No |
| Lifted: No |
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| Feature Relationships: |
| above: (Click to view the record) 3629 |
| below: (Click to view the record) 1002, 1005, 1007, 1012, 1013 |
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| Number of Related Diary Entries: 1 |
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| Conservation Recorded: No |
| Related Photos: 16 (Opens as a group in a new window) | Buildings: (Click to view the record)
| Spaces: (Click to view the record)
| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 5 (Click here to view unit list) |
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