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pear-shaped, perforated shell came from the skull ash.
Burial X0. 14: This burial was troweled out at mound base in
association with a considerable quantity of
charred pine. Further troweling led to the conclusion that
this association of charred pine was accidental, probably due
to clearing of the rcound base before construction of the round
(other indications of same in charred stumps). The burial
consisted of a skull, jaw, feuora, tibiae, and other unidentified
bone trails. A secondary burial was indicated.
Burial ko. 15: This burial came out a few feet fron Burial ko. 11
at a depth of 14 inches from present mund surface.
It consisted of a badly disintegrated skull, jaw, tibiae, feuora,
and one scapula. Evidently, this was a secondary burial. Long
bones were found in one pile almost touching the skull. Fezoral
epiphyses were only recently closed, and third ~~~lar.s were not
yet erupted. It is indicated that this was a young female.
Disc shell beads were found in the soil beneath the jaw (jaw
position indicated by preserved crowns of teeth).
Burials Fos. 16, 17, and 18: These three burials came out as
mall heaps of disintegrated bone,
uncovered in a 5 x 20 foot block, 10 feet west of the pottery
cache. These intements were aberrant in that they occurred 18
to 20 inches above our estiaate of the kound base (huuic stains,
organic matter only faintly indicated in E;UCIY of assumed mound area).
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