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0339 Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2
Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2 / Page 339 (Grayscale High Resolution Image)

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[Figure] 534 No.5, Terrace I.
[Figure] 535 No.2, Terrace I.
[Figure] 536 No.3, Terrace I.

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doi: 10.20676/00000178
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*Skeleton No. 4.*—The next burial was found at a height of +27 feet in the third terrace and more nearly approached adult size than any laid bare up to this time. The cranial sutures were not, however, closed and the ossification of the epiphyses was not complete in the limb-bones.

The body lay contracted on its right side with the main axis southeast and northwest. Both arms were drawn up as if to bring the hands (which were lacking) in front of the face, the left above the right. From the top of the badly broken cranium to the end of the spine measured 23 inches and from the back of the spine across to the ends of the leg bones was but 13 inches. (See fig. 537.)

*Skeleton No. 6.*—At a height of +26 feet in the second terrace the workmen broke with their picks into the skull of a child's body that on examination gave