In the morning, we photographed the central chamber and the artifacts near Locus 107. After this, Ruben removed the bronze dagger (Ar/Ge.K2.104.M.02) and Lilit drew the chamber. After Lilit finished darwing, I began by removing the beads on the right arm (Locus 111) and the animal bones (Locus 36). Then Maureen arrived (around 11 AM) and we began to remove the skeleton (Locus 107). By the end of the day, we had finished removing all of the human remains from the central chamber.
One of the animal bones from Locus 36 extended under the human remains, suggesting that both bodies in the chamber are likely contemporaneous. The beads in Locus 113 are primarily the spheroidal carnelian beads, with a small number of blue paste beads. Many of the beads were still next to each other, in situ. Near the pelvis, we found a small piece of string (or possible a piece of wood or other organic material). We photographed it and then took it for analysis. Just below the skull, we uncovered some small pieces of bronze in a line (Ar/Ge.K2.104.M.03), near the bronze earring (Ar/Ge.K2.104.M.01). We also recovered a small, decorated cylindrical bead made of gold (Ar/Ge.K2.104.M.04) from the screen, while screening dirt that came from near the head/neck of Locus 107.
The lower body (locus 107) is resting on its left side, facing NW and the body is oriented SW-NE. the lower legs are flexed and are at slightly different angles to the trunk. The right arm is folded and is resting west of the ribs. It appears that the body was lying on its side and then slumped forward. The hands and feet either didn’t preserve (likely given the poor state of preservation overall) or were not interred with the body.