84 ANTIQUITIES IN TENNESSEE. 



The skill of the aboriginal inhabitants of Old Town was still further illustrated 

 by a curious black earthenware vessel, resembling the head of a hog, and repre- 

 sented in Fig. 52. 



Fig. 51. 



Earthenware vessels from Old Town. 



Fig. r,2. 



The fact that this vase resembled the head of the Mexican hog or peccary, taken 

 in connection with the large marine shells which have been exhumed from the 



aboriginal stone graves, establishes the connection of 

 the Mound Builders of Tennessee with distant southern 

 and southwestern nations. 



The crania obtained from the stone graves at Old 

 Town presented similar characteristics to those described 

 in connection with the explorations at other localities. 

 Many of the crania presented little or no flattening of 

 the occiput, as was well shown in the case of a cranium 



exhumed from a stone grave on the banks of Big Har- 



Blaok vase or pot, composed of 

 dark clay and crushed shells, from 

 a stone grave at Old Town, banks 

 of Harpeth River. 



The diameter of this vase is 6 

 inches, its height 4 inches. 



pcth, which approached in its general outline to the 

 Mongolian type. In this skull there is but a slight 

 flattening of the occiput, and the foramen magnum is 

 more symmetrical in its outlines, and in its relative 

 position, than in many of the crania of this ancient race. 

 This cranium yielded the following measurements : facial angle, 82° ; internal 

 capacitv, 81 cubic inches; longitudinal diameter, 6.9 inches; parietal diameter, 

 5.5 inches; frontal diameter, 4.3 inches; vertical diameter, 5.7 inches; intermas- 

 toid arch, 15 inches; intcrmastoid line, 4.8 inches; occipito-frontal arch, 14 inches; 

 horizontal periphery, 19.6 inches; diameter of head and face, 7.8 inches; zygo- 

 matic diameter, 5 inches. 



