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calculated that scarce one in thirty survived to grow up. 

 Re-birth is easy, and is often rendered easier by burial of 

 the bodies of children in frequented places, by the path- 

 ways, and in or at any rate near the dwelling hut. We have 

 quoted instances of burial by the paths. In Cumberland 

 Valley, Tennessee, there were found 70 houses in an ancient 

 village. Under the floors of hard clay were found graves 

 of children, one to four in nearly every house, along with 

 pearls, shell beads, and pieces of pottery for them to play 

 with. In the burial mound of the village only the remains 

 of adults were found.* In the lake village at Glastonbury. 

 Somerset, which is held to date from the time just pre- 

 ceding the Roman conquest of Britain, the bones of a 

 young child were found in the floor of a dwelling near the 

 hearth, and there were other remains of children found in 

 various parts of the village. Besides these, there were two 

 or three skulls of adults — one with a sword-cut — but these 

 may have been trophy skulls hung up in the huts, or may 

 be otherwise accounted for. No other bones of adults 

 have been found. So far as the evidence goes it points 

 to hut burial for infants. Similar burial might be quoted 

 from the Solomon Islands and elsewhere. Professor Petrie, 

 in his account of his explorations at Kahun belonging to 

 the Xllth dynasty, says, "In many of the rooms there 

 were burials of objects in the floor. Many boxes were 

 found in which babies had been buried. The boxes were 

 evidently intended for domestic uses, but babies were put 

 in them, sometimes two or three together, and buried in 

 the rooms. The infants were often some months old." 

 In reference to Eg)'pt, we must of course remember that 

 the Egyptians also kept their mummified adult relatives in 

 their houses. 



In general, we may say that there is a good deal of 

 evidence that, in different parts of the world and among 



* First Report of the Bureau of American Eihnolog)-, 1879- 1880, p. 116. 



