Villa Magna

Interpretation

    • Adult skeleton in tomb on W-E orientation, buried in empty space
      • Erica Nitsch
    • 14-6-2010

Stratigraphic Relationships

Site Photo

Description

  • uppermost adult skeleton in marble slab tomb
  • small tools
  • tomb
  • marble slab
  • W-E
  • incomplete
  • good
  • Skeleton of adult in supine position in tomb, with reduction of earlier bones. Cranium may have originally been resting on angled marble slab to the west, but has fallen down to the east and right. Humerus, radius and ulna are present.
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  • good
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  • maturity
  • decay in empty space

Position

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  • fallen down and to the right
  • extended
  • absent
  • extended
  • absent
  • extended
  • extended
  • upper body seems to have decayed more in open space than lower body

Articulation

Decomposition and Compression

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  • open
  • displaced
  • displaced
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  • no
  • no
  • cranium slid off of marble slab
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Isotope Analysis

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Basic Information

  • uppermost adult skeleton in marble slab tomb

Tomb

Geophoto

Record Details

  • Cori Fenwick
  • 14-6-2010