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Bone material was rare. "Wliether the acidity of the soil was the 

 main determining factor for this lack is to be questioned, since other 

 sites witliin the immediate vicinity contained well-preserved bone 

 scraps as well as bone tools. Whether the inhabitants of this par- 

 ticular site depended wholly upon vegetal material to sustain life, as 

 it would appear, seems highly unlikely. 



BURIALS 



Directly beneath a rough pavement of broken stones, averaging 0.4 

 of a foot in thickness and 3.2 feet in diameter, was the badly disin- 

 tegrated remains of a fully flexed mature adult lying on its right side. 

 The skull, partially flattened from the weight of the soil and rocks, 

 was exceedingly soft in texture. Most of the small bones had disap- 

 peared and only small portions of the long bones in articulate position 

 were present, making placement positive. There were no grave goods 

 present. In the immediate area of the bones were four Hyco Fabric- 

 marked sherds as well as a number of crudely worked thin slabs of 

 slate. The outline of the grave blended so perfectly with the sur- 

 rounding pinkish-tinted sand that the point of origin and its dimen- 

 sions could not be determined. 



A second burial, located 4 feet to the north of the first, was found 

 at the same depth. Both were badly decomposed and sex and age 

 could not be determined from the remains. This burial was fully 

 flexed, and the individual lay upon its left side. It was accompanied 

 by a turtle carapace, whose crested dome rested uppermost, and was 

 placed between the lower portion of the legs— between knees and 

 ankles. There was nothing inside or beneath the carapace. It was 

 definitely not a container, for the orifice was downward. Covering 

 the upper part of the face and what remained of the skull was a large', 

 Hyco Fabric-Marked sherd. The skull was secondarily reoriented with 

 tlie adjustment of the surrounding soil. Only two burials were 

 located at this site. 



STONE ARTTFACTS 



Fragments of various steatite vessels, together with a number of 

 stemmed projectile points, were in the lowest levels of the site. Most 

 of the points were made from a bluish-black chert and only a very 

 few were made of quartz. Several of the chert points presented the 

 various steps in their manufacture (pi. 38) : first, a large flake was 

 cast off from a primary core or parent stock ; next, the flake was shaped 

 by percussion chipping that was not too carefully done; then the sides 

 were chipped and rarely was secondary chipping performed along the 

 edges. None of these points are outstanding examples of workman- 

 slup. This same practice holds true for the quartz points. 



