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| Area: North |
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| Dug in Year: 2013 |
| Feature Type: burial |
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| Location: Within platform F.3695, in building 52 |
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| Grid X: 1049.45 Grid Y: 1172.22 |
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This burial was dug in platform F.3695 and was the last one dug in that platform. The cut (u. 20648) seems to cut originaly the red painted layer u.20634 (but the erosion of the upper layers of platform F.3695 could lead to the possibility that the cut could also affect a latter stage of the platform now disappeared).
This last use of the platform as a funeral space has to be associated with building 52 and not building 51 (which had a re-constructed platform just above, after the burning of building 52), and so with platform F.3695 and not platform F.1575. Indeed, all the infill of the cut u.20648 shows the same taphonomical process as the platform F.3695 itself : a southwest side affected by the fire, and a northeast side not as much affected. Thus, burial F.7112 has been affected by the burning of building 52 and is earlier than this event.
It is interesting to note than the re-use of the same platform emplacement during the occupancy of building 51 did not disturb this previous burial of building 52. Just like if beyond the intentional burning, the idea of continuity was strong enough to prevent such practices. Which is different than most of the buildings without rupture of such a deliberate burning and reconstruction and where burial are yet steadily disturbed by new cuts. This should led us to re-consider the nature and implication of the deliberate destruction of building.
Burial F.7112 was a pretty simple primary burial of an adult person, buried heavely contracted. This position was very tightly held by bandages (phytoliths were found around femurs, pelvis, ankles and ilium).
Two shells (one of them with red ochre) were the only recognized artifacts of the fill going with that skeleton.
The cut is very deep but the infill seems completely homogeneous (except for some parts which are more affected by the fire and thus change by the consistency and the colours but are exactly the same as the rest). This finfill was divided in three arbitrary layers (u.20651, u.20652, u.20654). Only the top of the cut seems different: a very thin layer of plaster (u.20650) was laying on top of the infill and the cut was "closed" by a thick seal of plaster (u. 20644) very distinct from the platform plaster (u. 20634). |
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| In situ Conservation: No |
| Lifted: No |
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| Feature Relationships: |
| cuts: (Click to view the record) 3695, 7120 |
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| Number of Related Diary Entries: 0 |
| Conservation Recorded: No |
| Related Photos: 19 (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: 6 (Click here to view unit list) |
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