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Descriptive Attribute Value(s)
Element Rib
Taxon Sheep-size (medium dog to medium sheep)
Id # 13543.F35
Letter 2014-04-01
Find Number 35
Recovery Method dry sieved at 4 mm
Articulation 1
Certainty Certain
Animal Size Medium
Surface Condition Moderate weathering (surface cracks or flaking or powdery surface deterioration)
Origin Of Fragmentation Modern (all modern breaks)
Number Of Pieces 1
Weight (g) 1.0
Other Sections (with Data For This Specimen) Modification
Length (cm) 0.0
Location Storage
Body Portion Axial
Size Class Sheep-size (medium dog to medium sheep)
Date Recorded 2007-07-15
Fragment Size Indeterminate
Proximal / distal Proximal end
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 Proximal End
Cuts: Shaft, Anterior/posterior Anterior/ventral + posterior/dorsal
Cuts: Shaft, Medial/lateral Lateral
Cut Type Cut
Tool Material Chipped stone
Cut Depth Medium
Cut Interpretation Dismemberment
Modification Comments Surface quite deteriorated, but remnants of a couple of hacking cuts (blows with sharp edge?) on proximal shaft right by head, probably for detaching slab of ribs (but here on the head side).
Description Recorded under the new streamlined rules instituted today. This was an area of burning next to a bone concentration (13545) in TP. There is little dry-sieved material. Some of the bones are burnt, mostly the smaller ones. But much is not, just worn an
Recording (level Of Study Recorded For This Unit) Long form
Consumption Context Daily consumption
Depositional Context Tertiary
Faunal Unit Description Date Recorded 2007-07-14
Suggested Citation

Arek Marciniak, Nerissa Russell. (2013) "Bone 15048 from Asia/Turkey/Çatalhöyük/Mound East/Area TP/Unit 13543". In Çatalhöyük Area TP Zooarchaeology. Arek Marciniak (Ed). Released: 2013-03-02. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/85b1ec5a-161b-4bd1-5d3e-82e744ee2edc> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2vq2vd60

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