APPENDIX 



HUMAN SKELETAL REMAINS PROM THE TOL- 

 LIFERO (Ha6) AND CLARKSVILLE (Mcl4) 

 SITES, JOHN H. KERR RESERVOIR BASIN, 

 VIRGINIA! 



By LuciLE E, HoYME, Division of Physical Anthropology^ United 

 States National Museum^ and William M. Bass, Department of 

 Sociology and Anthropology, University of Kansas 



INTEODUCTION 



Two sites in the John H. Kerr (Buggs Island) Eeservoir Basin, 

 excavated by the River Basin Surveys between 1947 and 1951, yielded 

 human skeletal remains during the last 2 years of this period in quan- 

 tities large enough to justify description. The Tollifero site (Ha6), 

 named for the 18th-century family which built a house directly on 

 the site of an old Indian village, lies on Occaneechi Island in the 

 Roanoke River, in Halifax County, Va. Opposite Occaneechi Island, 

 on the north shore of the river, in Mecklenburg County, lies the 

 Clarksville site (Mcl4), named after the nearby town of this name. 

 These sites are about 200 river miles north of the mouth of the Roanoke 

 River, and about 40 river miles north of the Virginia-North Carolina 

 boundary line. 



Although these two sites are geographically and ecologically related, 

 a considerable time interval separates them. Tools made from the 

 bones of bear, beaver, duck, fox, deer, and elk, as well as remains of 

 fish and mollusks, occur at both sites. Only at the Clarksville site, 

 however, are there traces of corn, beans, and tobacco. Pottery and 

 other cultural remains also differ significantly at the two sites, indicat- 

 ing not only a different archeological horizon, but a different way 



1 During the summer of 1958, Bass examined the available skeletal remains, measuring 

 them and recording certain observations. The data which he obtained were incorporated 

 In a report on the results of his studies. Later Miss Hoyme was asked to reexamine the 

 collection, to expand the metric data by restoring and measuring additional bones, to make 

 supplementary observations, and to prepare a more comprehensive report. During the 

 writing of the present report, the junior author was In the field and unavailable for con- 

 sultation. As a consequence the final presentation of the material, comparisons, and 

 conclusions are Misa Hoyme's. 



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