Unit 21732

Category: Skeleton    dug in 2016

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: primary disturbed skeleton 

Data Category Information: none

Description: Individual 21732 is an adult male aged more than 30 years of age at death.
L clavicle : 16 cm
L humerus: 30.5cm
L radius : 23.5 cm

R clavicle : 16 cm
R humerus : 31.5 cm
R radius : 24 cm
R ulna: 26.5 cm

R femur : 44 cm
R tibia : 37 cm
R fibula : 34 cm
R patella : 5.5x5.5 cm 

Discussion: 2014: Disarticulated elements lifted in 2014. Remainder to be lifted in 2015.
2016: Individual 21732 is an adult male aged more than 30 years of age at death. This individual lay slightly on its right side but he is placed as well supine in a flexed position. The cephalic extremity is oriented to the east with the feet to the west. The cranium of the individual 21732 was lifted by the archaeologist KC as disturbed by the later burial (F 7419). The skull was in “exocranial” view, next to the cervical, the mandible was in a superior view next to the skull. So probably, the skull may have originally been laying against the eastern edge of the burial cut, in the left lateral view and a little bid sur-elevated. So after the decomposition of the ligaments, the cranium could have turned slightly to exocranial view. We don’t agree with the previous archaeologist KC, that the head was re-deposited after the deposition of individual 19148.
The left upper limb is flexed and the left hand in dorsal view is on the right os coxae and right femur proximal extremity. The labile joints of the left hand are in perfect anatomical connexion. The right upper limb is flexed as well, but the right wrist was elevated, so when the Neolithic occupant of building 80 wanted to bury the juvenile in F 7404, they disturbed not only the right hand but as well the left lower limb. From the left lower limb, we have only in-situ preserved in the burial cut the lateral extremity of the left feet: phalanges, metatarsals and medial and intermediate cuneiform.
The right leg, in medial view was hyperflexed onto the thorax area, his foot is hyperflexed in front of him with the knees around 10 cm from the chest area. The right patella is in-situ. The right foot is in medial view, in a perfect anatomical connexion, the phalanges are against the northern burial cut edge.
Both the clavicle has a V-shape (verticalisation), this position is normally the result of a constriction in the shoulder area.
The right part of the rib cage lay more in the bottom of the burial cut, but still the rib cage is flattened. The left part above the void created by decomposition of the lungs is more obliquely oriented.
The cervical vertebrae are in lateral view in a perfect anatomical connexion but we have noticed some anomalies of bone position located in the thorax area. The first is related to the spine: a disconnection (hiatus) is observed between the T9 and T10. In fact, the thoracic (from T9) and lumbar vertebrae have shifted more to the right (north) of the medial axe of the skeleton.
Plus, another hiatus is located betweenT12 and L1. These bones displacement is due firstly to the decomposition of the lung, and suggest decomposition in a lot of void besides the burial cut U-shape as well.
The second one is that the manubrium (upper part of the sternum) is in-situ in its initial position between the two clavicles, but the corpus sterni is located on the internal sides of the right ribs. After the decomposition of the lung, the corpus sterni felt down on the right ribs. But still, the rib cage is flattened this could only indicate that it was decomposed in a void. But all the other bone position especially the most labile joints were in anatomical connexion. It means that the decomposition occurred in a filled space. So how can we have evidences of decomposition in filled space and empty space at the same time? In my opinion, individual 19148 and 21732 was buried either at the same time or in a very short lapse of time. Because it is so inexplicable how can individual 19148 be deposited after without disturbing individual 21732. The only disturbances of the individual 21732 bones are related to decomposition on an empty space due to the secondary voids created by the two bodies in decomposition one on each other, especially that the individual 19148 was laying prone, so the void resulting from the decomposition of two lungs can create a secondary void for individual 21732.
No grave goods were associated with individual 21732. 

X and Y of Targets: Target A - X: 936.9223; Target A - Y: 962.6408; Target B - X: 936.7373; Target B - Y: 962.1398; Target C - X: 936.4042; Target C - Y: 962.5498; Target D - X: 936.38; Target D - Y: 962.8295 

Body:  

Head:  

Right Arm:  

Left Arm:  

Right Leg:  

Left Leg:  

Other comments: The cranium and mandible was lifted by archaeologist KC as 19154. The lower sacrum, left : os coxae, femur, tibia, fibula, talus and calcneus are missing, they are probably been removed in the Neolithic while diging a new burial fill for the burial F 7404. The bones remaining from the left lower limb are the left foot bones ( only the phalanges, the metatarsals and some tarsals ) in situ in a perfect anatomical connexions. 

Surface Modifications:  

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20098 below: (Click to view the record) 21700 

Skeleton Same As: 19154

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

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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Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

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