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a house wall. The wall was of imfaced native soil, sloping up from 

 the floor at an angle of 20 degrees to the former village level. The 

 house pit was 1.8 feet deep, and at the wall the overburden was 2 feet 

 deep. Four postholes along the wall contained the remains of cedar 

 posts or soft mixed earth. The holes varied in diameter from 0.5 to 

 0.8 foot, and were 1.3 to 2.4 feet deep. No other features of interest 

 were noted on the trench floor. 



EXCAVATION UNIT 8 (HOUSE 4) 



Unit 8 revealed the floor of a long- rectangular house. The structure 

 was excavated in 1947, and the following description was paraphrased 

 from Hewes' original report (1949 a, pp. 22-23) . 



The largest and deepest house depression at the site was cross- 

 trenched, and the greater part of the floor was ultimately cleared. 

 The floor lay at a depth of about 4 feet below the present surface. The 

 upper foot of the overburden was sterile, including only recent de- 

 posits of humus, but the remaining fill included sherds, bone and flint 

 tools, and animal bone. The structure was approximately rectangular, 

 65 feet long and 35 feet wide, with four rows of postholes. (The floor 

 plan of the house is apparently similar to that of House 1 and House 

 3.) Three fireplaces, devoid of refuse, were on the floor. The only 

 other significant features were three large piles of bison bone, chiefly 

 cranial parts and horn cores, intermingled with rough stone. Near the 

 floor center, about 50 inches below the surface of the house depression, 

 were two large broken pottery vessels resting mouth down on the floor. 

 These two vessels were illustrated in Hewes' original report (1949 b, 

 pi. 5, lower right, t-u) . The house fill above the floor contained such 

 refuse as bone, sherds, and tools, but the floor was free of such detritus. 

 Hewes was inclined to interpret this feature as a ceremonial structure, 

 rather than a household dwelling unit. In size, at least, the house 

 stands apart from the smaller structures excavated in 1955, and Hewes' 

 interpretation is convincing. 



HUMAN BURIALS 



There is a low rise of ground south of the site, and this rise is inter- 

 cepted along its north edge by a road (map 2) . In 1956, George Haiser 

 reported to the excavators that, prior to World War II, several human 

 burials were gouged from the south bank of the road by road-cutting 

 operations. It is possible that this rise of ground may have served as 

 a cemetery for the village, since there were no human remains in the 

 site. The burial positions and the disposition of the remains from the 

 road cut are not known. 



Other evidence of activity in the low rises south of the site was 

 encountered. Survey parties in 1955 found circular shell disk beads 



