Villa Magna

Interpretation

    • 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
      • Erica Nitsch
    • 9-7-2009

Stratigraphic Relationships

Site Photo

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.
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  • none
  • good
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  • 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
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Isotope Analysis

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Basic Information

  • right torso of adult skeleton south of 2001 and below pelvis of 3649*

Tomb

Geophoto

Record Details

    • Lisa Fentress
    • Cori Fenwick
  • 9-7-2009
  • Cori Fenwick
  • 8-7-2009