Interpretation
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- Partial adult right torso with W-E orientation whose left side was disturbed by cut 3576 and whose lower limbs were disturbed by cut 3654
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- Erica Nitsch
- 9-7-2009
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Description
- right torso of adult skeleton south of 2001 and below pelvis of 3649*
- small tools
- simple earth
- none
- W-E
- poor
- mediocre
- partial adult skeleton with head of right femur, partial pelvis, lumbar vertebrae, metacarpals, right ribs and partial humerus, disturbed by later cut 3576 for burial 3574* and cut 3654 for 3652*
- This pelvis was lying directly below just a few centimeters to the south of the isolated right pelvis of 3649*. Some of the lower thoracic vertebrae are preserved but only the vertebral arch, not the centrum, which was cut by later burials.
- none
- good
- cane shape of sciatic notch
- fusion of distal humerus epiphysis and general size
- later burials
Position
- Absent
- Absent
- Absent
- Absent
- Absent
- Absent
- Absent
- Only a few metacarpals preserved but hands definitely placed over abdomen
Articulation
Decomposition and Compression
- No
- Sunken above right ribs
- closed
- not present
- not present
- not present
- not present
- no
- not present
- cut by later burials