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intrusive deposits may have occurred. The natural soil itself was a 

 gray sandy loam with considerable lime or magnesium at a depth of 

 3 feet or more. It was extremely hard except that within the pit 

 itself there had been a great deal of badger and smaller rodent work 

 which made softer areas. The recent digging was for the most part 

 easily distinguished except where it had been taken advantage of by 

 rodents in enlarging their runways. There is, however, no reason 

 to believe that rodents or recent workers were responsible for the 

 broken and haphazard arrangement of bones and artifacts, for this 

 was equally apparent in places where there was no trace of any such 

 disturbance. Our own excavation work covered the entire interment 

 area and extended beyond into barren soil on all sides. The work was 

 carried on by a series of trenches all of which were carried down 



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Fig. 10. — Cross-section of Graham site, i, carved antler bracelet; 2, fragment 

 of male skull; 3, pocket of 12 shell beads; 4, sandstone shaft polisher; X, indi- 

 cates fragments of human bone ; hachures indicate unexcavated soil. 



into the undisturbed natural soil. Definite concentrations of bones and 

 artifacts within the pit were not observed, material of this sort being 

 scattered through the entire area from top to bottom (pi. 8, figs. 3. 4). 

 With the exception of two infant skeletons, there was no indica- 

 tion of any order in the human remains. Bones and bone fragments 

 were scattered throughout the pit area without any indication of 

 natural association. The first child's burial was found at a depth of 

 2 feet in the east-central part of the pit. The crushed skull and most 

 of the other bones were present but badly disintegrated. Near the 

 neck were a number of perforated marine shells {Olivella jaspldca 

 Gmelin) and snail shells (Ancidosa praerosa Say), probably part of 

 a necklace. There was no indication of a definite laying out of the 

 remains nor of any separate grave. Rather the remains appear to 

 have been thrown in with the surrounding human bone fragments. 

 The second infant skeleton occurred at a depth of 12 inches in the 

 northeast corner of the burial pit. In spite of the shallow earth 



