TWO LATER NEOLITHIC BURIALS FROM STAINES ROAD FARM, SHEPPERTON, SURREY EXCAVATED 1989
Author(s): Simon Mays, J Steele
Two adult inhumations (one unsexed, one probably female) probably of later 3rd millennium B.C. date were recovered from the Staines Road Farm site. The principal point of interest was the nature of the incomplete representation of skeletal parts of the unsexed individual, which included mandible, spinal column and ribs in articulation, but excluded cranium, almost all forelimb and lower limb bones, pelvic bones, and shoulder girdle. Preservational factors alone could not explain this pattern. The possibility of pre-inhumation dismemberment was eliminated, and it was concluded that the missing parts had been removed after in situ soft tissue decompostion, possibly during subsequent disturbance of the ditch fill.
- Report Number:
- 62/1992
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 6
- Keywords:
- Human Bone Human Remains
