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Females (n=1)
o Cranial Orientation: This single female is found with a definitively
northern cranial orientation.
o Burial Position: This individual was found in an indeterminate burial
position.
o Burned/Unburned: One female interment exhibits evidence of
burning.
o Pigmented/Unpigmented: No females exhibit accompaniment by or
staining with red mineral pigments.
o Cross Motif/No Cross Motif: There are no vessels with a cross motif
interred with females.
o Material: NB Colha chert is the most quantifiably prevalent material
class interred with females. Unidentifiable lithic material artifacts are
the only other material class present in female interments; these
goods make up the minority of the female funerary assemblage.
o Form: NB Colha chert modified lithics are the most quantifiably
prevalent artifact form in the female funerary assemblage, with a
small minority of goods being represented by modified lithics
manufactured from unidentifiable lithic material.
o Space Function: All females are recovered from domestic contexts.
o Artifact Function: Females are more only with practical burial
furniture.
o Head Cover/No Head Cover: No females are interred with a ceramic
vessel covering their cranium.
Adults (n=24)
o Cranial Orientation: Equal numbers of indeterminate and northern
cranial orientations appear in adult interments, with a large number
also displaying possibly northern orientations.
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