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Technological and artistic activity — Continued 

 Dress complew — Continued 



Copper bead pendant necklace 

 Shell bead wrist bands 

 Shell bead covered skirts, kilts, or aprons 

 Shell bead waist bands 

 Shell bead necklaces — Olivella 

 Shell bead necklaces — Marginella 

 Shell gorgets worn around neck 

 Shell gorgets worn upon chest 



Bone bead worn individually suspended on cord from neck 

 Bird and animal bone necklace 

 Sheaf of arrows bound to upper arm by band 

 Bar gorgets 

 Trade complex: 



Busycon shells from Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Florida area 



Olivella shell from Georgia coast and Gulf of Mexico 



Marginella shell from Gulf of Mexico 



Copper, from either western Virginia, North Carolina, or the Lake 



Superior region 

 Graphite from western Virginia or Pennsylvania 

 Steatite from Meherrin River area 

 Manganese from western Virginia 



DISCUSSION 



The CLarksville village site (44Mcl4) lying directly east of Occa- 

 neechi Island and on the east bank of the Roanoke River was first 

 settled during the early part of the Woodland Period and later 

 abandoned during the early part of the Late Woodland, about the 

 middle part of the 16th century. The latter is purely a guess date and 

 cannot be verified by any positive means of dating, such as radio- 

 carbon, dendrochronology, etc. If we accept the begimiing and termi- 

 nal dates, the extent of occupation and the density of population, as 

 implied from the number of burials recovered, the whole would tend 

 to indicate a rather long interval. 



At the time of the 1947 survey, particular attention was given to 

 testing this site. It was then noted that the surface collection, together 

 with the material recovered from the various test pits, represented 

 the longest pottery-bearing sequence within the reservoir area. This 

 was later corroborated and substantiated during the 1951 and 1952 

 field seasons. (See pottery types chart, facing p. 292, for the entire 

 reservoir basin.) 



Throughout the occupational interval there were a number of subtle 

 cultural changes which were noted, namely: a gradual change in 

 burial ritual from a flexed through semiflexed and ending with an 

 extended form for both adults and infants. The earlier forms were 

 fairly consistent and uniform as to depth, averaging between 2.0 to 3.3 

 feet. The extended forms showed greater latitude, for we fomid that 



