The period 3500-2500bc has mixed burial incidence very heavily represented in Table 197 at 38%, and although it is low over 2500-8/700bc at 3%, mixed burial rises well above the average to 14% and 16% over 8/700bc-AD43. Sole female burials are steady throughout except in 8/700-100bc where they rise steeply in percentage terms (14% against the 6-7% in other periods), but on a rather low numerical base (Table 196). Sole male burials are lower in 3500-2500bc and rather higher than average in 14/1300- 8/700bc and 100bc-AD43, but the base is small. Table 198 traces the proportions of a characteristic incidence through the five periods, and reflects these results.
Table 200 shows the south area having an unusually high incidence of sole male burial in 3500-2500bc (29%), and of sole female burial over 8/700bc-AD43 (21-19%). Mixed sex burials are also higher than the average in that period (21-17%). On small samples (Table 199) not much more may be said using this evidence alone.
The area provides more evidence pro rata for sex identification than the other two. There are a few variations around an average of 16% for sole male burial, 14% for sole female burial and 7% for mixed burial (Table 203). The period 3500-2500bc has a higher incidence of all three types with sole female burial leading, and this pattern nearly exactly recurs in 8/700-100bc. A caveat must be made about the low numerical base (Table 202). Sole male burial incidence peaks in 2500-14/1300bc at 20% and is at its lowest in the next period at 6% and in 100bc-AD43 at 9%. The area shows the same higher incidence of mixed sex burials in the earlier two periods and in the last two.
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