72 FOSSIL MEN. 



in thickness, and of a black colour. This was full 

 of fragments of pottery and bones, and occasionally 

 yielded interesting specimens of stone and bone im- 

 plements. Around the outskirts of the town, and in 

 some cases within its limits, were skeletons which 

 have been buried in shallow graves in a crouching 



Fig. 14. MODE or SUSPENDING EABTHUT POTS. (Outside of angle of mouth of 

 vessel.) 



position and lying on their sides, and over each 

 skeleton could usually be detected the ashes and 

 burned soil of the funeral feast. The soil being dry, 

 all vestiges of hair and of the skins in which the 

 bodies had probably been wrapped had perished, and 

 the bones had lost their animal matter, had become 



