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Descriptive Attribute Value(s)
Element Femur
Taxon Cow-size (cattle/red deer/horse)
Id # 8922.F45
Letter 2014-04-01
Find Number 45
Recovery Method dry sieved at 4 mm
Articulation 1
Certainty Certain
Animal Size Large
Location Of Burning Distal shaft
Type Of Burning Calcined
Color Of Burning Mixed high+low temperature (black and/or brown and gray, white, blue and/or green)
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) 2.0
Length (cm) 3.0
Location Storage
Body Portion Upperlimb
Size Class Cow-size (cattle/red deer/horse)
Date Recorded 2004-07-19
Fragment Size Less than 1/4
Proximal / distal 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
Description Flotation sample 2, >4mm flotation 100% sorted, only diagnostics recorded, rest as flot frags. Diagnostics are radius, tibia, calcaneus, sesamoid, phalanx, skull fragment and tooth of ovis/capra and tooth of Equus hydruntinus. In the flot frags are pieces
Recording (level Of Study Recorded For This Unit) Long form
Depositional Context -
Faunal Unit Description Date Recorded 2004-07-18
Suggested Citation

Arek Marciniak, Kamilla Pawlowska. (2013) "Bone 8971 from Asia/Turkey/Çatalhöyük/Mound East/Area TP/Unit 8922". In Çatalhöyük Area TP Zooarchaeology. Arek Marciniak (Ed). Released: 2013-03-02. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/778983a6-796b-4a83-00bc-b1a454f16f3c> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2ng4jz1h

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