Human Remains
Lori D. Hager and Başak BozExcavations by the BACH team in Building 3 during the 2001 field season exposed the remains of four individuals who had been buried in the house during Neolithic times.
 Figure 20: Excavating a composite burial in the North-West platform, Building 3 |
To date ten Neolithic individuals have been found in Building 3; eight as nearly complete burials, and two as isolated crania found together with their foreheads touching, neither associated with the rest of their skeleton. Of the eight more complete burials, four are juveniles, two are adolescents and two are adults. All but one of the juveniles were found in the floor within the same region of the central space. One juvenile, the two adults and two adolescents were buried in the NW or NE platforms. |
In addition to the excavation of the four newly exposed skeletons, the team continued the data collection and data entry phase of the BACH human remains project. The team was able to complete a number of analyses on the human remains recovered from Building 3 thus far. We were also able to prepare the skeletal material for future analyses.