CATEGORY: technique; term. DEFINITION: A context of an archaeological find that has been disturbed by subsequent human activity or natural phenomena. The provenience, association, and matrix of such archaeological data have been wholly or partially altered by transformational processes after original deposition.
Longest snake - ever (captivity) The longest snake - ever (captivity) is Medusa, a reticulated python (python reticulatus), and is owned by Full Moon Productions Inc. in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. When measured on 12 October 2011, she was found to be 7.67 m (25 ft 2 in) long. Medusa also holds the current 'Longest Snake - Living (captivity)' title.
Construction workers spotted the snake under a tree in the town of Paya Terubong. The snake died a few days after its capture. (Reuters) Oh, giant snake, we hardly knew ye. In a span of three days, humans managed to find what may have been the longest snake in the world, capture it, kick it and watch it die. The reticulated python, a fairly common species in Southeast Asia, was spotted Thursday at a construction site in Paya Terubong, part of the Malaysian island of Penang.