Interpretation
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- Adult male. Head may have been resting on something and when this shifted it fell causing the unusual curve in the spine.
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- Megan McNamee
- 24-7-2009
Stratigraphic Relationships
Site Photo
Description
- skeleton with twisted spine in tomb along north side of narthex
- small tools, trowel
- built tomb
- W-E
- good
- good
- Earlier skeleton in tomb along the north side of narthex in Room II. Head is rotated to the right. Spine is drastically curved to the left. Pelvis is very open.
- Excavated out of phase. Skeleton extended just beyond the limits of the tomb (on the north side).
- high
- lower mandable; sciatic (sp?) notch; ventral arch
- size of bones
- later burial
Position
- turned to the right
- F
- D
- F
- D
- D
- D
- SX hand extended over right elbow; DX hand extended over left elbow.
Articulation
Decomposition and Compression
- Yes
- Yes
- Open
- A
- Right foot turned laterally
- Verticalized--more so on the DX
- Yes on DX, no on SX
- No lateral rotation (DX and SX)
- In place
- Vertibrae, ribs, arms, pelvis, head, ankles
- Empty space
