120 • Jerome C. Rose and Philip Hartnady 



ducted in the field within portable 

 buildings brought to the excavation site 

 and used laboratory and photographic 

 equipment brought from the University 

 of Arlcansas campus. All skeletal mate- 

 rials were washed, inventoried, and 

 photographed. Age for subadults was 

 determined using dental development 

 (Schour and Massler 1941) and epi- 

 physeal union (Krogman and Iscan 

 1986:50-97). Age determination for 

 adults used pelvic criteria. Each pubis 

 was scored using the Todd system with 

 the Brooks modification (as cited in 

 Krogman and Iscan 1986:148-154), 

 and the pubic cast system for males 

 (McKem and Stewart 1957) and fe- 

 males (Gilbert and McKem 1973). The 

 auricular surface age system employing 

 both textual and photographic descrip- 

 tions of each stage was also applied 

 (Lovejoy et al. 1985). Macroscopically 

 observed skeletal lesions were recorded 

 using the system adapted by Powell 

 (1985:433-434). This system records 

 each pathological lesion by a numerical 

 code, textual description, and color- 

 coded drawings on a skeleton outline 

 provided on the recording forms. The 

 four-digit numerical code provides the 

 following information: type of lesion 

 (i.e., resorptive, proliferative, trauma, 

 and neoplasm), location on bone, ex- 

 tent of lesion, and status of lesion (i.e., 

 active or remodeled). The textual de- 

 scriptions and drawings provided clari- 

 fication of the code for each lesion and 

 a photograph was taken of each. The 

 numerical code was entered, along with 

 age and sex, into a computerized data 

 base for this analysis. 



Results 



Both historical and archeological evi- 

 dence established that all excavated in- 

 dividuals were interred between 1890 

 and 1927. The 79 excavated graves pro- 

 duced a total number of 80 individuals, 

 as one grave contained two individuals 

 (seven-month in utero twins). The age 

 and sex data (see Table 1) were ana- 

 lyzed using an abridged life table fol- 

 lowing the procedures of Swedlund and 

 Armelagos (1976:63-64) and com- 



TabLE 1. Demography of the Cedar Grove 

 historic cemetery 



Table 2. Percent active osteolytic/proliferative lesions by age in years 



Birth 0.1-0.9 1-5 6-10 11-29 30-39 40-50 50 + 



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