FOWKE] ANTIQUITIES OF MISSOURI 7 
‘high mountain” we find the linguistic successor of ‘‘high mound’”’— 
in other words, the towering artificial structure called the Great 
Cahokia Mound. There is no other locality near the mouth of the 
Missouri which accords with the description given by Dorsey, certainly 
no ‘‘high mountain,” so it is safe to assume that the Siouan tribes 
were settled for a time on an extensive bottom in front of the 
present city, with the Mississippi river on the north, east, and south. 
They may have constructed the small burial mounds found in the 
county and westward; and when, in their renewed migration, they 
reached a region where flat rocks were abundant and earth hard to 
dig, may have evolved the stone vaults. 
As no mention is made in the legend of contact with an unrelated 
tribe, either at that time or afterward, the Mound Builders had no 
doubt abandoned the site before the advent of the Sioux; otherwise 
we should certainly have heard of them. 
EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE MOUTH OF GASCONADE 
RIVER 
THE GRANMANN Mowunps (1)2 
A mile west of Gasconade, on the farm of Mr. William Granmann, 
were three earth mounds, two of which stood about 40 yards apart, 
on the edge of a bluff overlooking the Missouri. 
MOUND NO. 1 
The mound farthest west measured 37 feet in diameter and 3 feet 
in height. A space 30 feet in width, extending from the south mar- 
gin to a line midway between the center and the north edge, was first 
cleared away to the subsoil, which lay at a depth of from 10 to 12 
inches. On the bottom, near the center, were a number of bones, of 
which only a humerus, a tibia, and two femora were in condition to 
be identified. Some of the bones showed indentations and _ stria- 
tions produced by gnawing, after burial, by mice or other small ani- 
mals.° Such markings are found on many bones unearthed from 
mounds along the Missouri River bluffs, and fragments of bones so 
marked are occasionally found at some distance below the bottoms 
of the mounds, having been dragged there by the rodents, some of 
whose burrows are indistinct or even obliterated. 
The only implement found in this mound was a rough flint knife, 
which lay loose in the earth. 
a Corresponding numerals designating the several areas of excavation dealt with in this paper will be 
found on the map (pl. 1). 
b Incisions of this character are sometimes reported as evidence of the cutting or scratching of bones 
with sharpened or pointed implements, indicating cannibalism, or of attrition by. glacial action, either 
directly by ice, or indirectly by floods resulting from its melting. In the latter case, hones could hardly 
have found their way into any aboriginal burial place. 
