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Description: | The upper part of a human skull in very good condition and stained dark brown. The fragment is almost certainly of prehistoric date. Emily Brants reports: The remains consist of the frontal bone from the skull of an adult male human. The age of the individual cannot be attributed any more accurately, due to the lack of aging indicators (e.g. teeth or corresponding skull bones with sutures etc). The skull is probably male, due to the prominent supraorbital ridge and the blunt angle of the superior margin of the orbits. The bone has the appearance of beginning to fossilise, as it has lost some of its organic component. It is not possible to establish exactly how old the remains are on the basis of this, and the lack of an exact context for the discovery of the find also inhibits the determination of which archaeological period the remains are from. However, alkaline deposits are known to be favourable for the process of fossilisation (diagenesis), especially if the remains are buried soon after death (Lewin 2004).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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skull
Human skull. Male aged about…
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