| | Area: North | | | | Dug in Year: 2012 | | Feature Type: burial | | Feature Subtype: | | | | Location: In the NW corner of Space 40, the main of one building. | | | | Grid X: 1056.4 Grid Y: 1193.2 | | | Grave cut: Edges hard to define, bottom easier.
Skeleton: Oriented E-W with head in the west, lying on its left side with legs tightly flexed and knees towards the chest. The skull had been visible in the surface for a while and was fragmented and the spinal region was missing - Sub-adult.
Grave infill: Very similar to surrounding material.
See feature sheet for F3661 for further discussion.
Primary deposition, disturbed by vicinity to surface and later burial.
There seems to be a pattern in the Space 40 grave cluster. All of the individuals are sub-adults, except for 19472 and 20419, and all of them were buried in separate graves on separate occasions. They all lie down on their left side, except for 20442, 20419 and 20445 being on their right side, with their legs tightly flexed, knees towards the chest and arms flexed with hand close to the chin. The orientation varies. The legs might well have been bound, but there is no evidence of wrapping or such. Two Individuals were buried with necklaces and two with pointed bone tools.
All the graves except for the one of skeleton 20434 were dug just deep enough to touch either a plastered surface (F3669, F3670) or one compact layer in the NW corner of Space 40 (white, light gray with salt accretions, not yet numbered). The grave digger also tried not to dig into the walls surrounding Space 40. Perhaps the walls were still visible, perhaps people just looked for soft spots to dig in. They did not avoid digging into earlier graves, but simply pushed any found older bones towards the edges of the new cut. | | | | In situ Conservation: No | | Lifted: No | | | | Feature Relationships: | | cut by: (Click to view the record) 3667 | | cuts: (Click to view the record) 3663 | | | | Number of Related Diary Entries: 0 | | Conservation Recorded: No | Buildings: (Click to view the record)
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| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 3 (Click here to view unit list) |
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