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NATIVE CEMETERIES AND FORMS OF BURIAL, 



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gun barrels, iron knives, and other articles of European origin have 

 been discovered, consequently they may not be older than those justly 

 attributed to the Kaskaskia and their neighbors. 



One other cemetery may be mentioned to show the wide distribu- 

 tion of this form of burial, although in the manner of covering the 

 graves the makers differed somewhat from the usual method. The 

 cemetery in question was in the southeastern part of Geauga County, 

 in the far northeast corner of Ohio. Here " the graves were mostly 

 constructed of flat stones, placed on edge at the sides and ends. They 

 were paved and covered with the same flagging stones. . . . Over 



Fig. 5. — Small mortuary bowl. 



these were piled loose stones. The location is a side hill, with a 

 descent to the east. In one place the graves extended several rods 

 up the hill in a line in such a manner that the foot of one grave made 

 the head of the next and were all covered by a continuous i^ile of 

 loose stone. This burial place has been almost entirely despoiled." 

 (Luther, (1), p. 593.) 



No other form of burial is more widely dispersed in eastern United 

 States than that just described, and stone-lined graves have been en- 

 countered up the valley of the Ohio into Pennsylvania, western 

 Maryland, and Virginia, and farther south they have been traced 



