Hoyme and Bass] SKELETAL REMAINS 337 



Burials 7^, 18^ 20. — ^A multiple burial, consisting of broken and 

 partly charred bones, found in an old midden pit. There were three 

 skulls, and the postcranial bones seemed to come from more than one 

 skeleton. Discarded in the field. 



Burial 16 {USNM 380899) .—KdivM male, represented by only the 

 lower legs and feet. The remainder of the skeleton may have been 

 destroyed by the pit which disturbed these parts. 



Burial 16 {USNM 380900) .— Female, about 35 years old; a fairly 

 complete semiflexed burial (pi. 84). Many teeth lost postmortem; 

 those remaining show fourth degree wear and only one cavity. The 

 adjacent articular surfaces of the 2d and 3d cervical vertebrae are 

 eburnated and lipped. The bodies of the lumbar vertebrae show 

 considerable lipping of their anterior margins ; and their cranial and 

 caudal surfaces show irregularities suggestive of disk injuries. The 

 marked indentation of the cranial surface of the sacral base, with 

 extensive lipping at the anterior lumbo-sacral margins, suggests 

 that the intervertebral disk had become displaced. (Observations 

 on the thoracic vertebrae are not possible due to the weathering of 

 the surfaces.) Otherwise, arthritic changes in the skeleton are 

 limited to erosion of the medial joint surface of the left patella. 

 The pelvis shows an accessory sacroiliac articulation on the right; 

 and pits, indicative of pelvic traumata, on the ventral surface of the 

 left pubis. 



Burial 17 ( USNM 380901 ) .—Female, 20-23 years old. This skele- 

 ton was found as a bundle burial, close beside burial 16, in the same 

 pit. In keeping with the youth of the individual, wear of the 

 teeth is only grade 2 ; there are no scars on the ventral surface of 

 the pubes. The right lamina of the fi.fth lumbar vertebra shows an 

 old fracture with nonunion. There are septal apertures in both 

 humeri. 



Burial 18 — see Burial H. 



Burial 19 {USNM 380902) .—Male, 30-35 years old; a nearly com- 

 plete semiflexed skeleton resting on its belly, face downward. Wear 

 of teeth is slight (second degree), and there are no cavities. This 

 is the only dentition at this site showing congenital absence of all 

 four third molars. An old healed fracture of the left ankle had left 

 the lower end of the tibia, the talus, calcanous and adjacent foot 

 bones deformed. 



Burial £0 — see Burial llf.. 



Burial 21 {USNM 380903) .—Female, over 35 years old; a flexed 

 burial in poor condition. The bone is light and demineralized ; the 

 round, low skull is badly damaged and only two of the long bones are 

 complete. The teeth are in extremely bad condition. Fourth-degree 

 wear is accompanied by extensive exposure of the pulp chambers. 



