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Descriptive Attribute Value(s)
Element Long bone
Taxon Sheep-size (medium dog to medium sheep)
Id # 13027.X3
Letter 2014-04-01
Find Number 3
Recovery Method dry sieved at 4 mm
Articulation 1
Certainty Certain
Animal Size Medium
Location Of Burning Shaft
Type Of Burning Carbonized
Color Of Burning Black
Surface Condition Very slight weathering (bone in good shape with sharp edges on breaks and hard, slightly shiny surface)
Origin Of Fragmentation Predepositional (all old breaks)
Number Of Pieces 1
Number Of Elements 1
Weight (g) 1.0
Other Sections (with Data For This Specimen) Artifacts + Measurements
Length (cm) 3.0
Location Storage
General Comments Tip end of point, old break. Probably metapodial but not enough to go on.
Body Portion Unidentified
Size Class Sheep-size (medium dog to medium sheep)
Date Recorded 2006-07-13
Fragment Size Less than 1/4
Proximal / distal Shaft
Fusion Indeterminate
Fragmentation Shaft splinter
Proximal Portion Present: Anterior/posterior Indeterminate
Proximal Portion Present: Medial/lateral Indeterminate
Distal Portion Present: Anterior/posterior Indeterminate
Distal Portion Present: Medial/lateral Indeterminate
Element Portion Shaft
Shape Modification Point
Temporal Typology Point
Completeness greater than 25%
Splitting Split
Tip Angle (degrees) 18.0
Number Of Perforations 0
Pattern Of Perforations 0
Tip Wear -
Base Treatment -
Bone Artifacts Comments Tip of a point on a long bone. The tip was longitudinally scraped. The tip was longitudinally abraded. The edges were transversely abraded. The very tip broke off in use. The shaft broke off in use. NR
Bone Artifacts Date Recorded 2006-07-17
Description Tools only. X3 is the tip of a bone point. One bone pulled for C14; rejected, recorded, returned.
Recording (level Of Study Recorded For This Unit) Partial (e.g., only bone tools or special finds)
Depositional Context -
Faunal Unit Description Date Recorded 2006-07-13
Suggested Citation

Arek Marciniak, Nerissa Russell. (2013) "Bone 12894 from Asia/Turkey/Çatalhöyük/Mound East/Area TP/Unit 13027". In Çatalhöyük Area TP Zooarchaeology. Arek Marciniak (Ed). Released: 2013-03-02. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/335a01cf-4a7c-4105-8080-6f9df1dccfde> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k25x27h58

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