Hoy me and Bass] SKELETAL REMAINS 343 



Burial ^0 {USNM 55^55^) .—Male, 28-35 years old; a flexed skele- 

 ton, in fair condition, lacking the hands. Second-degree tooth wear 

 had been accompanied by the loss of at least t^Y0 lower teeth and the 

 decay of nine of the upper teeth. The upper third molars are un- 

 usually small. 



Burial 21 ( USNM 380855) .—Male, 80-38 years old ; a well-preserved 

 semiflexed skeleton. Second-degree tooth wear was accompanied by 

 advanced caries in seven of the upper teeth; none of the teeth had 

 been lost, but the molars and incisors are in such bad condition that 

 their loss would have been only a matter of time. Arthritis is 

 limited to the anterior margins of the second, third, and fourth lumbar 

 vertebrae. The spine shows a tendency toward elongation : the first 

 lumbar vertebra bears a rib on the left, and the sacrum consists of 

 6 segments. The pelvis has small accessory sacroiliac articulations 

 bilaterally. The only other featui'es of note are the unusually narrow 

 and high mandibular coronal processes. 



Burial 22 {USNM «?5^55tf) .—Female, 20-24 years old; a nearly 

 complete semiflexed burial. First-degree wear of teeth, with con- 

 siderable tartar formation, had been accompanied by caries in three 

 of the lower teeth, one of them abscessing, and loss of a lower first 

 molar. Depressed and eroded areas on the anterior surface of the 

 femora, just above the lateral condyles, may have resulted from pres- 

 sure of the patella during repeated extreme flexion of the knees. A 

 wrist injury left the lower end of the left ulna shortened and arti- 

 culating with the radius just above the normal articular facet ; heal- 

 ing had been preceded by infection and formation of a fistula. The 

 axis lacks a foramen for the vertebral artery on the right, and the 

 corresponding foramina on the atlas and fourth cervical vertebrae are 

 reduced in size ; the other cervical vertebrae are either missing or dam- 

 aged. The base of the skull is damaged, so that the basilar portion 

 of the arterial groove could not be examined. The fourth (or fifth?) 

 lumbar vertebra has a separate neural arch. Cuts on the left parietal 

 bone and around lambda suggest an attempt at scalping. 



Burial 23 {USNM 380857) .—Infant about 18 months old; an ex- 

 tended burial. 



Burial 24 {USNM 380858) .—Male, 45-55 years old; a flexed burial 

 in poor condition. The skull is long and narrow, with many wormian 

 bones in the right lambdoid suture. Wear of the teeth is second to 

 third degree, with extensive decay. Twelve of the teeth were lost 

 during life, and ten of the remaining teeth have cavities. Arthritic 

 changes had taken place in the shoulder and elbow joints, and in one 

 of the articular facets of the cervical vertebrae. It is likely that 

 arthritis was present in other parts of the spine, but the vertebrae 

 are too damaged to permit examination. The sternal end of one of 

 the right ribs (the seventh ? ) is forked. 



