MYER] GORDON TOWN SITE 555 
SmiLtar Foop ANIMALS 
Their favorite food animals changed very little after the Madison- 
ville people left their Tennessee kin. The Madisonville people had 
learned to eat the dog. Some other changes will be seen. A com- 
parison of the following table of food bones from cache pit III on the 
Madisonville site with the table of the food bones of the Gordon and 
Fewkes sites, near the end of this volume, will be instructive. 
Cacue Pir III, 6” 
Per cent Per cent 
Gate e ae serene ee ee CUNO TM RACCOOnM eas = Santee keene ew 0.'5 
Markevas fF eee eee stot SON Beaver uae woe ta eh Part 5 
Bearased yaa haisk ve Leeez eee. 2.5 | Opossum, puma, fish, fox, otter, 
THIS 2A Ee Se ee 2.'5 woodchuck, badger__________ 1.0 
lpia Oe Be eee eee 2.5 
shurtle: (2. Species) 52 = ao lem 2.5 Rotel eee ee = eit 100. 0 
A study of the Gordon and Madisonville sites throws some light 
on the comparatively late arrival of the bison in the region east of 
the Mississippi and south of the Ohio. 
As stated elsewhere in this volume, the bison had probably not 
arrived in Tennessee at the time the Gordon site was inhabited; but 
the Madisonville people appear to have come in contact with it after 
_ they left their Gordon kin. This is shown by the fact that not a 
trace of the bison was found on the Gordon site, while at Madison- 
ville it appears to have been eaten, but sparingly. 
WANDERINGS OF THE GORDON PEOPLE 
The possible relationship between Gordon town and some of the 
other ancient peoples who have lived in the central basin of Tennes- 
see has already been indicated in this work. There is some extremely 
hazy evidence of the migration of these ancient Gordon kindred 
peoples from the Northwest down into the mountainous regions of 
southeastern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia. There are 
some faint archeological evidences that they remained for a long 
period of time in this portion of the Virginias. 
The author has found apparent traces of them after they reached 
the Jasper Allen mound region in Scott County, Va., about 30 miles 
northwest of Bristol, Tenn. These traces are shown by relics found 
by Mr. Valentine in the Jasper Allen mound, and now in the Valen- 
tine Museum, Richmond, Va. One is a water-bottle-shaped vase 
with four world-quarter human prayer heads. Another is a few 
fragments of a water-bottle-shaped vase with equal arm cross or four 
world-quarter symbols with encircling sun ring. There are also other 
traces in these Allen mound relics. 
® Hooton and Willoughby, op. cit., p. 32. 
