Human Bone
from archive reportDuring the six month season eighteen inhumations consisting of six neonates, eight infants, one adolescent and three adults were excavated in the South Area. The neonates and infants were frequently placed in well made coiled baskets with lids and some were buried with strings of beads and other grave goods. One particularly interesting burial was an adult man lying on his back with flexed legs who had been decapitated leaving cut marks on the vertebrae. A plank and some other organic object were then placed over him. Owl pellets were found in two of the other adult burials and several skeletons had ochre on them. Disarticulated human bone was found in the KOPAL area and the deep sounding suggesting some other form of burial rite.
Figure 25: Infant burial conserved and lifted in box, prior to display in Konya Museum.