Individual: XB

Sex: female

Age: > 25 years (iliac crest fused)

Burial Type: primary flexed left

Orientation of Burial:

Description: CR/CS/CU/XB, primary burial of at least 5 individuals, 4 adults and 1 subadult. The multiple burial was partly disturbed. The corpses were buried close together in a flexed position lying on the left side. From a male skeleton (CU) only the skull and upper left part of the body was preserved. Another male skeleton (CR) in front of it was almost undisturbed with the right hand placed on its left shoulder. The upper parts of the next two corpses, a male (CS) and a female (XB), were disturbed. The left hand of XB rested on the hip. Small bone fragments of a child were found scattered over the place. he right wrist of XB was adorned with a bracelet of black and white tubular beads and disc-beads. The distal part of the left humerus, left forearm, left hand, lumbar spine (deforming spondylosis), pelvic girdle and lower limbs are well preserved. The tibiae are platycnemic; the patella reveals a vastus notch. Body Height Estimation: 167,00 (Trotter & Gleser 1952)

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