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Btjrtat. No. 11: 



Location: Squares S45-E140, S45-E145, S50-E140, and Su0-E145. 



Grave dimensions: Maximum length, 72 inches; maximum width, 30 



inches; depth, 48 inches. 

 Type of burial: Extended, on bacli. 

 Orientation: Head to northwest. 



Dimensions of skeleton: Not recorded because of lacli of preservation. 

 Completeness: Skull and long bone parts present; most other bones com- 

 pletely decomposed. 

 Preservation: Poor. 



Associations: Engraved bottle, possibly a variant of type Haley Engraved 

 (pi. 3, 6) ; brushed-incised jar, type Pease Brushed-Incised (pi. 3, a) ; 

 engraved bowl, unidentified type (pi. 3, c). 

 Physical observations and measurements: 

 Sex: Probably female. 

 Age: 16 to 18 years. 



Cranial measurements: Maximum length, 175 mm. ; maximum width, 

 140 mm.; index, 80 (brachycranic) ; minimum frontal diameter, 90 

 mm. ; bigonial diameter, 95 mm. 

 General observations: No artificial deformation; supraorbital ridges 

 moderately pronounced; depression above each orbit in region of 

 frontal eminences; slight sagittal ridge, depressed on either side at 

 the sagittal suture; advanced caries in upper second molar. 



THE ARTIFACTS 



The artifacts recovered from the Knight's Bluff Site, most of them 

 potsherds, totaled 6,564. For purposes of associational analysis, 20 

 individual 5-foot squares and blocks of squares were arbitrarily 

 designated as associational units, and the artifacts from each unit 

 were laid out on tables by depth and strata. There was absolutely 

 no significant indication of typological stratification in the units ex- 

 cept that several dart points occurred in the uppermost few inches 

 of stratum 1 (the compact clay member underlying the two upper- 

 most strata of sand) where no pottery was found. A light occupa- 

 tion at that level is indicated by the presence of flint chips in addi- 

 tion to the dart points. The dart points include types Gary and Ellis, 

 indistinguishable from specimens of the same types in the overlying, 

 pottery-bearing zone. 



Of possible bearing on the lack of stratification of pottery types 

 is the intricate maze of rodent holes that laced strata 2 and 3, the 

 soft, sandy, uppermost strata. Little evidence of rodent activity was 

 observed in stratum 1, probably because the clay was extremely hard 

 and compact. Also, few rodent holes were encountered in the com- 

 pact midden material of the house floor. 



The house-floor midden can certainly be considered an excellent 

 associational unit; that is, the artifacts occurring therein can be 

 assumed, with little possibility of error, to be material discarded by 

 the occupants of the house and consequently to have been used by 

 one small group of people during a relatively short period of time. 



