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We took out partly exposed skeletons at six or seven different 
places, and did systematic trenching at two localities—the “Camp 
Cemetery ” and “ Pottery Hill” (see pl. 1).? 
CAMP CEMETERY 
The Camp Cemetery, a little above the entrance of the ravine that 
shelters Ruin 8, is a sherd-covered slope crowned by the ruins of 
several house units. The burials were located by finding human 
bones scattered about the mouth of a badger hole. <A trench, cut 
to bedrock, was run north and south at this point. The surface here 
is covered by a layer of loose drift sand, 6 inches to 1 foot thick, 
overgrown with sagebrush and rubber weed. Under this and ex- 
tending to bedrock, 3 to 44 feet below, is a fine-grained, sandy adobe, 
so very closely compacted that it had to be broken up with the pick 
before it could be shoveled. About 2 feet below the surface was a 
wavy half-inch stratum of ashes and charcoal. Charcoal, potsherds, 
and bones of deer, turkeys, and rabbits were scattered through the 
hardpan to the bottom. So hard was the ground that it took four 
men four days to dig a trench 42 feet long, 10 to 12 feet wide, and 
3 to 4 feet deep. We found six skeletons, and there are probably 
others in the immediate neighborhood. 
As few burials from northeastern Arizona have hitherto been 
treated, it may not be amiss to describe these six. 
Skeleton 1 (pl. 23, 6) lay 35 inches below the surface, 9 inches 
above bedrock, and was both covered and underlaid by cedar bark. 
Elderly male. Partly flexed on back and left side, hands at groin, 
ribs and thoracic vertebra destroyed by a badger hole, head south- 
west. A small black-and-white colander lay over the feet, and beside 
it a broken rubbing stone. Back of the head were four other small 
pots, one covered with a sherd, another containing the bones of a 
rodent. 
Skeleton 2 (pl. 24, a) lay 2 feet southwest of No. 1 and at the 
same level. It was an infant of about 18 months, lying on the right 
side, hands in front of face, thighs at right angle to body, lower 
legs flexed; head southwest. Before the face were grouped four 
pieces of pottery and a large sherd. 
Skeleton 3 (pl. 24, 6) lay 24 feet south of No. 2, 3 feet below the 
surface and directly upon the bedrock. Adult male. The body 
was on the right side, legs partly drawn up, hands between the 
upper thighs, head southwest. In front of the chest was a red 
1“ Pottery Hill” is the place spoken of by Fewkes (1911, p. 12) as a probable ceme- 
tery; the ‘rings of small stones suggesting graves,’ however, proved to have 190 
mortuary significance. They seem to have been cooking places. 
?Cummings (1910) giyes the only information we haye on the subject. 
