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(Position of the strata is shown in fig. 6.) Stratum 1 was com- 

 pletely sterile of cultural remains. The occupational zone ranged 

 in thickness from 3 or 4 to about 15 inches and, since the site lies 

 in an old field which has been cultivated more or less continuously 

 for about three-quarters of a century, it had been greatly dis- 

 turbed by plowing. Even the burials were only a few inches deep, 

 and several concentrations of badly scattered, broken human bones 

 indicated that some burials were completely destroyed by the plow. 



No house patterns or other prominent features were encountered 

 except for the burials, possibly because cultivation may have de- 

 stroyed any that were present. The cultural zone was fairly homo- 

 geneous, the only differentiation being a heavier, thicker concentra- 

 tion in the central portion of the site and several small spots where 

 a great deal of carbon and grease had cemented the sand of stratum 

 2 into relatively compact layers. Most of the animal bones were 

 found in the vicinity of these compact spots, which bolsters the 

 suspicion that the spots are remnants of small refuse heaps which have 

 been almost completely destroyed by plowing. 



On January 14, 1954, approximately V^ years after the excava- 

 tions described above, the writer revisited the Snipes Site with Ed 

 Moorman and Bogie Price. A bridge across the Sulphur River just 

 below the site was being raised so as to clear the waters of Texarkana 

 Reservoir, and earth-moving operations, which had been carried on 

 at the Snipes Site in connection with construction of the bridge, 

 had scraped portions of stratum 2 off most of the occupation area. 

 A small pile of human skull fragments was found on the scraped 

 surface, and excavation exposed a burial that had been struck by 

 the bulldozers. This burial was designated as burial No. Y, the next 

 number in the sequence begun in the previous excavations. Subse- 

 quently, Bogie Price found two more burials, Nos. 8 and 9, and a 

 complete pottery vessel that was apparently not associated with a 

 burial. Description and analysis of the three additional burials and 

 the vessel are included herein with the previously acquired data. 



BURIALS 



Several areas containing scraps of human bones — apparently the 

 remains of burials badly scattered by the plow — were so ill-defined 

 that their original placement could not be determined. The nine 

 relatively undisturbed burials were just a few inches beneath the 

 surface of the ground, and all had been disturbed to more or less 

 extent. Two were single flexed inhumations without offerings of 

 nonperishable nature; the other seven were of the extended type, 

 one being a multiple burial of three individuals, another containing 

 two individuals, and five being single burials. Five graves contained 

 mortuary offerings. 



