FOWKE] MOUNDS IN ALABAMA A443 
reversed. Nothing of an artificial character was found in either 
erave. Although the amount of shells separating the two denoted 
a long interval between the interments, the methed of burial in both 
cases, as shown by the position of the bones, was practically identical. 
At 69 feet, in west wall, were the lower left leg and foot bones of 
one person. These were not broken before being deposited, as was 
usually the case with segregated bones; the latter condition indicates 
cannibalism, while the former may be due to all other bones of the 
corpse disintegrating and dissolving; instances of such disappear- 
ance being frequent. 
At 75 feet, 16 feet from west wall, 444 feet from bottom, was a 
skeleton extended, on back, head northeast. The bones were too 
fragile to pick up; the ulna was 1314 inches long. The skull was 
in numerous fragments, but most of these were secured. Under this 
skeleton, but separated from it by 3 to 4 inches of clean, unburned 
shells, was a fire-bed burned to a bright red to a depth of 2 to 4 
mehes. It had no apparent connection with the interment. 
At 80 feet, under the west bank of the trench, in a hole dug only 
§ or 6 inches into the subsoil, was the closely folded skeleton of a 
young person; the teeth were but little worn, some of them not at all. 
It lay on the left side, head northeast. At the neck were four beads; 
two cylindrical and one of ordinary form, apparently of burned 
clay; the fourth of a stone resembling compact steatite. (PI. 71, 6.) 
Five feet east from the last skeleton was another, closely folded, 
head nearly east. The bones were in small pieces and very soft; the 
teeth not much worn. The femur measured 16 inches. The skull 
lay on a flat rough slab of limestone about a foot across. 
At 88 feet, on west side of trench, was a skeleton folded into the 
smallest compass and pushed down in a squatting position into a 
hole which seemed too small to hold an ordinary body. The legs 
were to each side of the ribs. While the larger bones, especially 
toward the bottom of the grave, were tolerably solid, the upper bones 
were much decayed. The scapulae and two or three of the cervical 
vertebrae were still remaining, but there was nothing left of the skull 
or even of the teeth. As the vertex of the skull would have reached 
the surface of the mound, and the place it should have occupied was 
6lled with a mass of roots, it had probably entirely decayed. Among 
the bones were two finely chipped flints with long barbs, part of the 
lower jaw of a small dog, a staghorn flaking tool, and a sharply 
pointed sliver of bone. Had the skeleton only been buried, especially 
without the cranium, it is not probable that these things would have 
heen placed in the grave. As the flints were of different pattern and 
finer finish than any others found in the mound, and the form of 
burial was so unlike any other, this was no doubt an intrusive burial. 
