This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...a decayed skull; a few fragments of bone were found at intervals to the east of it, as if the body had been interred there. No relics of any sort were found during the excavation, except a copper bracelet, which had apparently been lost by one of the workers when the mound was about half finished. No. 2.--This had been ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...a decayed skull; a few fragments of bone were found at intervals to the east of it, as if the body had been interred there. No relics of any sort were found during the excavation, except a copper bracelet, which had apparently been lost by one of the workers when the mound was about half finished. No. 2.--This had been cultivated for many years, having now a diameter of ninety and a height of three feet. At various places below its bottom were holes filled with loose, dark earth, some of them dug, others due to the decay of roots and stumps antedating the mound. Near the center were two skeletons of medium size, lying a foot apart, with heads toward the east. The left arm of the one to the south lay on a thin stratum of ashes and bone, much burned and cemented together until almost as hard as stone; it covered a space of one by two feet. The feet of the skeleton lay on hard-burned, undisturbed earth, from which the ashes had been carefully removed. The lower jaw was narrow, with a prominent chin and the teeth much crowded; the upper jaw was decidedly prognathous. The head of the second skeleton was two feet farther east than that of the first, and rested on a fire-bed; near its skull were found fragments of bones of a very young child. The fire-beds at the head and feet of these two were each about four feet across; another, north of them, was six feet across, and the earth beneath it was burned red to a depth of four inches; none of them was regular in shape. On these bodies and ash-beds, 'over a space of some fourteen feet in diameter, earth had been deposited to the thickness of a foot at the center, running to an edge all around; above this was a thin layer of charcoal with its margin resting on the original surface; and. over this the mound had been bui..
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excellent book on early archaeology
dispels all the myths of the early americans
alibris wants me to be politicallyy correct,so ill have to let it go at that
