Soil Systems, Inc. Inhumation Arm Position Coding Sheet

Creator(s): Soil Systems, Inc.

Year: unknown

Summary

These codes record the position of the arms relative to the rest of the body. They are from the SSI inhumation form, last revised in 2004.

Cite this Record

Soil Systems, Inc. Inhumation Arm Position Coding Sheet. Soil Systems, Inc.. ( tDAR id: 6329) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8R20ZH9

Category: Human Burial

Coding Rules

Code Term Description Mapped Ontology Node
0 Absent
2 Parallel Arms are relatively straight along sides of body
3 Crossed left over right
4 Crossed right over left
5 Bent (slightly flexed)
6 Left under pelvis left hand under pelvis
7 Right under pelvis right hand under pelvis
8 Both under pelvis both hands under pelvis
9 Flexed flexed but not crossed
15 Other
Code Term Description
Special Coding Rules: These entries are not in the coding-sheet, but represent edge-cases in Data Integration that may benefit from custom mappings
The following coding rules exist in datasets mapped to this coding sheet, but are not in the coding sheet
99

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