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even the coccyx being intact. All the teeth were present, solid, and 

 symmetrically set. Unbroken strata of ashes a foot thick above 

 this skeleton sagged somewhat owing to settling of loose ashes 

 thrown around and over the body at time of burial. The skull is 

 shown, front, profile, and back, in plate 21. 



A few inches below these bones, with ashes intervening, were piled 

 some bones of a child of about 8 years. The caps of the joints 

 were not adherent, and some of the teeth had not come through the 

 bone. The skull, which was intact, lay on left side, vertex north, 

 ribs, arm bones, and feet bones lay on the top, at the back, and at 

 the vertex, in contact with the skull and with one another. As 

 there was no evidence that they had ever been disturbed by animals, 

 it would appear that only the bones mentioned had been deposited; 

 even the lower jaw was absent. They lay in a mass of kitchen refuse, 

 shells, burned bones, charcoal, and ashes, the upper layers of which 

 were curved as if the bones had been laid on a level area of this 

 mixed material and the rest of it piled over them. Their position, 

 and the small number of them, indicates that the flesh had been used 

 as food. The skull is shown in plate 22. 



Betw^een this partial skeleton and the complete one above it, ap- 

 parently thrown in with the refuse which covered and surrounded 

 both, were fragments of two large pelvic bones which did not belong 

 to either of them. 



Directly below these burials, 3 feet under the surface, was pan ol 

 an infant's skeleton, with five shell disk beads among the bones ; the 

 only instance in which ornaments were found with human bones. 

 The skull and some other bones were present, but most of the remains 

 had disappeared into the runway of a burrower. 



At several places in the central parts of the cavern, at almost 

 any level between the top and the bottom of the ashes, were human 

 bones, singly or a few together, some of them apparently remains 

 of interments, others carried to the points where found. Most of 

 these scattered bones were of children or infants ; but now and then 

 larger ones were found, notably two large adult tibiae which were a 

 foot apart. While a few of them may have been thrown in with 

 the ashes, most of this confusion resulted from the activity of 

 rodents, though some of it was due to desultory former investi- 

 gations. 



At one point was the perfect lower jaw of a child 8 or 10 years old ; 

 with it were a scapula and some vertebrae which may have belonged 

 to it, also some ribs, vertebra^ and arm bones of an infant. Two or 

 three of them bore marks of fire, especially an ulna of a child which 

 was completely charred. 



Four feet from east wall, 4 feet below surface, at the beginning 

 of the slope to the rear, was the skeleton of a child less than 2 years 



