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faced south. All the skulls were filled with heach sand composed 

 largely of minute shell fragments. Underneath burial urn 6 was a 

 mass of closely packed human bones in a pocket of white beach sand 

 (fig. 6) ; (these are not indicated in Bird's original vertical diagram, 

 but I have added them in accord with his description) . As far as could 

 be determined, this mass included 14 femora, 14 lower leg bones, 

 14 upper arm bones, 7 jaws. 7 pelvic portions, and a disproportion- 

 ately small collection of ribs and vertebrae. Slightly above the burial 

 urn and to the north was a bundle of long bones, apparently from 

 the same adolescent individuals whose skulls were placed around 

 the burial urn. 



Sandy 

 Topsoil 



Beach Sand 



Fig. 7. — Cross-section diagram of skulls around burial urn 6, Black Rock Basin, 



site I. 



Burial urn 7 (pi. 3, fig. 2) was 3I feet northeast of urn 6 (pi. 2, 

 fig. 3). Like all the others, it is of monochrome, red-brown ware, 

 with sand tempering. The vessel is 42 cm in height, with an outer 

 mouth diameter of 27 cm ; in thickness it varies between i and .5 cm. 

 It has more of a neck than urn i (pi. 3, fig. i) and an obliquely 

 everted lip. The rim was 10 inches below the surface with the bot- 

 tom resting in the black occupational stratum. The upper half was 

 full of sand, then occurred a single layer of potsherds, and below 

 this were two skulls, one adolescent, the other more mature, both 

 very poorly preserved. In addition, there were three vertebrae, two 

 fragments of pelvis, and a small mandible, apparently that of the 

 adolescent skull. 



