Unit 1884

Category: skeleton    dug in 1997

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: skeleton 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Discussion: A tightly contracted burial of a child / adolescent, in or just beneath SW platform of space 112. (Mellaart's shrine VII.9)
The burial has its head to the ESE, into the room and feet close to the W wall of the building. It was found too close to the present surface for a cut to be visible but has clearly been squashed into a confined space (note the attitude of the head and hands). There was no evidence for binding but the presence of both patellas is indicative that the body was fleshed when interred.
A clay ball fragment lay in front of the face - though this association could be fortuitous - see (1880). The presence of other burials under this platform is shown by a skull (burial 1885) immediately to the S.

Ref for Shrine VII.9 is Mellaart 1964 (the 3rd prelim, report) pp 52-4 & plate Va. The report makes no mention of burials in this room. 

 

Condition: hot & sunny 

X and Y of Targets: Target A - X: 910.37; Target A - Y: 978.96; Target B - X: 910.55; Target B - Y: 978.17; Target C - X: 0; Target C - Y: 0; Target D - X: 0; Target D - Y: 0 

Body: tightly contracted on left side 

Head: on left side, pushed down and to left, ie face is virtually looking straight down. 

Right Arm: arm flexed, hand pushed in against left tibia 

Left Arm: arm flexed, hand pushed up in front of skull 

Right Leg: knee drawn up to chest, toes pushed back against sole 

Left Leg: knee drawn up to chest, though in front of Right leg. 

Other comments:  

Surface Modifications:  

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2361 below: (Click to view the record) 1880 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7

Number of Related Diary Entries: 2

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 6 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 50

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 112

Features:: (Click to view the record) 83 (burial)

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 contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

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 records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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