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Descriptive Attribute Value(s)
Element Lumbar vertebra
Taxon Sheep-size (medium dog to medium sheep)
Symmetry Central
Id # 17809.F12
Letter 2014-04-01
Find Number 12
Recovery Method dry sieved at 4 mm
Articulation 1
Certainty Certain
Animal Size Medium
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
Location Storage
General Comments attached to soil lump taken together with scapula anf platform fragment. Location of vertebra shows that this element was underneath scapula. Not possible estimation weight.
Body Portion Axial
Size Class Sheep-size (medium dog to medium sheep)
Date Recorded 2010-07-07
Fragment Size Less than 1/4
Proximal / distal Vertebral body
Fusion Indeterminate
Fragmentation Indeterminate
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 Vertebral Body
Description Category: a big concentration of animal bones, placed in the SE corner of space 346, direclty to the east from the platform 17813, and south to the oven 17821. It contained a big number of animal bones mainly cattle (X1, X4, X11 scapula, X13 fragment of l
Recording (level Of Study Recorded For This Unit) Long form
Consumption Context Special
Depositional Context Secondary
Faunal Unit Description Date Recorded 2009-07-19
Suggested Citation

Arek Marciniak, Kamilla Pawlowska. (2013) "Bone 19332 from Asia/Turkey/Çatalhöyük/Mound East/Area TP/Unit 17809". In Çatalhöyük Area TP Zooarchaeology. Arek Marciniak (Ed). Released: 2013-03-02. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/7c1e372c-7d00-4d43-3ef0-40b7552dcbb0> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k22r3qz63

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