Unit 6237
Category: skeleton dug in 1999
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: Primary burial - juvenile in a basket
Data Category Information: none
Discussion: The basket and the skeleton are very poorly preserved. The fill is mixed with some animal and other human bones (phalages and carpal).
The burial was under the northwest platform. The northwest wall of the platform painted with red ochre. The individual died at age of 3.
X and Y of Targets: Target A - X: 0; Target A - Y: 0; Target B - X: 0; Target B - Y: 0; Target C - X: 0; Target C - Y: 0; Target D - X: 0; Target D - Y: 0
Body: Lying on its front. SE to NW
Head: Facing down. Crushed.
Right Arm: Flexed under the body.
Left Arm: Flexed under the body
Right Leg: flexed, open to the side
Left Leg: flexed tightly on the side of the body.
Other comments: The cut is very large and deep, being large might suggest that there is another burial. It was covered for next year.
Surface Modifications:
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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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 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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