DT Death Pit Human Bones

Data Table Summary

Count of Fields (Columns)

240

Count of Rows

2976

Description

This table documents human skeletal remains from the "Death Pit", a complex burial excavated at Domuztepe between 1997 and 2003. This pit measured more than 3m in diameter and was about 1.5m deep. It contained layers of dis-articulated human and animal bones, broken pottery and other finds.

The bones in this table have been described using a recording system documented here: https://opencontext.org/media/D5C21D60-F93A-448B-E29E-07C2D6F68922

Additional Context

The following publication provides additional context and description for the Death Pit feature and its human and animal remains:

Sarah Whitcher Kansa, Suellen C. Gauld, Stuart Campbell and Elizabeth Carter

2009

Whose Bones are those? Preliminary Comparative Analysis of Fragmented Human and Animal Bones in the “Death Pit” at Domuztepe, a Late Neolithic Settlement in Southeastern Turkey. Anthropozoologica 44(1):159-172. 2009

[Open Access] [Article]

Data Sources

Domuztepe Excavations (2976)