Pip ^o' 34]' DEMERY SITE — WOOLWORTH AND WOOD 85 



Demery, since sherds of Thomas Riggs Focus types were in it — 

 pottery which predates the major occupation of the site. Another 

 large pit, Feature 118, intersected the house wall north of the entrance. 



The charred wall timbers along the walls inside the house pit are 

 of special interest. They are discussed in more detail later in the text, 

 but they are taken as evidence that the houses were covered by poles, 

 the butts of which were set on the house shoulder outside the house 

 with the tops leaning against the stringers connecting the center posts. 

 These poles were covered by charred grass. 



House 5 (map 9). — This structure was in excavation 5 in the 

 northeast part of the site. Time did not permit its complete excava- 

 tion, but a cross section revealed the basin-shaped central fireplace, 

 two small bell-shaped pits, and three postholes. The entrance was 

 not found. The house pit was 22 feet in diameter, with a central fire- 

 place 2.5 feet in diameter and 0.5 foot deep. This feature was basin 

 shaped, and somewhat more regular than those in the other houses. 

 The house pit was about 1.5 feet deep. 



HUMAN REMAINS 



Three bones were found in widely separated parts of the site. 

 A femur (and an incisor) were in Feature 32, an irregularly shaped pit 

 in excavation 7 ; a sacrum was in Feature 77, an irregularly shaped pit 

 in excavation 5 ; and a cranial fragment was in the backdirt of excava- 

 tion 2. These bones, all of them from adults, were in refuse-filled pits 

 outside of dwellings; none of them were stained with color or show 

 any other special treatment. 



The head was broken away from the femur at the neck, and the 

 epicondyles and surrounding bone of the medial and lateral condyles 

 are missing. The condyles are fused to the shaft, indicating that the 

 individual was more than 17 or 18 years old. The third trochanter is 

 6 mm. high, and the middle of the shaft is oval, with a slight linea 

 aspera. Measurements include : 



Millimeters 



Maximum length (from surface of the lateral condyle to the upper 



extremity of the greater trochanter) 



Subtrochanteric diameter, antero-posterior 



Subtrochanteric diameter, lateral 



Middle shaft diameter, antero-posterior 



Middle shaft diameter, lateral 



390 

 20 

 32 

 22 

 27 



The crown of the incisor is worn down and the pulp exposed. The 

 pulp cavity, however, had receded with the attrition of the tooth. 



