PREHISTORIC EVIDENCES IN MISSOURI. 



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appeared to have been built above ground, the stone having been 

 borne up the hill not less than a quarter or perhaps a half mile, and 

 from a location at least 100 feet lower. The rock in its original beds 



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Fig. 8. 



is not found above 150 feet from the base of the hill, the hill above 

 being covered with loess clays supporting a growth of large trees. 

 Both of the mounds 1 and 3 contained human bones. In No. 3 several 

 skulls and one good skeleton were found, to- 

 gether with fragments of others. With the ex- 

 ception of this one skeleton all seemed to have 

 been buried in a sitting posture, or with knees 

 bent, the hands close to or resting on the knees. 



Fig. 9. 



The bones, from long decay, could with difficulty be removed. This 

 vault had an entrance 3 feet wide opposite the eastern side, as repre- 

 sented in Fig. 9. 



The vault in mound No. 2 contained a large quantity of charcoal, with 

 fragments of charred bones, and much of the clay was reddened by burn- 

 ing. This was evidently a cremation vault. 



The vault of Mound No. 1 is similar in shape and contents to that of No. 

 2, but had been previously excavated and partly filled up. The vaults 

 in each of the mounds 1, 2, and 3, had entrances or openings in the wall 

 3 feet wide, extending to the bottom of the wall. The skulls contained 

 full sets of sound teeth worn off smoothly. 



Mound No. 4, the largest, is about 5 feet high and 40 feet in diameter, 

 and is built entirely of earth. Excavations revealed one black Hint spear- 

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