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" lay partly upon the side, with knees drawn up and head crouched 

 down upon the ribs, as though originally placed in a sitting posture." 

 (Thomas, (1), pp. 484-488.) 



Therefore, the two characteristic features revealed at this site 

 were, first, the great number of caches, and, second, the method of 

 burial, evidently all the dead having been interred in graves near 

 the habitation, cremation not being practiced. Quite similar to the 

 preceding were traces of an ancient village, with its accompanying 

 mound, which stood some 6 miles north of Chillicothe, Ross County, 

 Ohio, on the east side of the Scioto, this being the left bank of the 

 stream. "The village site j)roper occupies between 3 and 4 acres 

 of land and entirely surrounds the mound. However, directly south 

 and southeast of the mound, surface indications are richest, for 

 here our examination showed the earth was intermingled with the 

 refuse from their homes to the depth of from 1 foot to 20 inches. 

 . . . Directly to the south and less than one-half mile is what is 

 known as the Cedar Bank Worljs, which has been described by 

 Squier and Davis." 



No traces of a village were discovered nearer the inclosures, and 

 so it appeared reasonable to attribute their origin to those who once 

 occupied the settlement less than one-half mile northward. The 

 entire site was not examined, but " as the examination j)rogressed 

 it was soon discovered that the inhabitants of this village lived in 

 small clans or family groups. Although only 15 skeletons were un- 

 earthed in the examination of this village, there is no doubt but that 

 burials were made along the hillside which surrounds the vilhige on 

 three sides." Describing the burials discovered near the sites of the 

 dwellings it was said: "The dead were evidently buried in close 

 proximity to the habitat of these people and were similar in every 

 respect to the burials in the Baum village site, along Paint Creek. 

 Each family apparently had their own burial ground, which was in 

 close proximity to the home. No evidence was found that the bodies 

 had been placed upon scaffolds and afterwards reinterred. In the 

 majority of the graves the body was placed at full length . . . 

 however, a single burial was found in the bottom of a refuse pit." 

 No cremated remains were discovered outside the mound which 

 stood near the center of the ancient village. 



The examination of the mound proved of the greatest interest. It 

 "was made up of three separate and distinct sections, as is shown 

 in figure 17. The burials in the first section differed greatly from 

 those in the second and third, which were similar. In the first sec- 

 tion the bodies had been cremated and the ashes with the personal 

 belongings had been deposited upon a prepared platform of earth; 

 while in the second and third sections the inhumation of the bodies 



