978 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, LOWER TOMBIGBEE RIVER. 
Mound Number 7.—Height, 15 inches; diameter, 20 feet. The central part 
of this mound, 12 feet in diameter, was excavated. Fourteen inches down were 
fragments of long-bones, parallel. At the same level, somewhat to the west, were 
parts of a skull. 
The next landing above Rembert’s is Bickley’s, where our former work on the 
Tombigbee ended. The river, therefore, has been covered by us from Columbus, 
Miss., to its junction with the Alabama river. 
The Tombigbee river' from its junction with the Alabama to Columbus, Mis- 
sissippi, practically the head of navigation, 334 miles above, by water, while it 
yielded to our search but few artifacts and but little new in the way of data, is of 
interest on account of the comparatively sharp limits confining the practice of cer- 
tain aboriginal customs along its course. Realizing that later investigation by 
others may modify conclusions based on our work, we shall, with the help of the 
accompanying map, outline these areas as noted by us. 
At Hooks’ Plantation, 17 miles above the junction of the Tombigbee and 
Alabama rivers, and at Three Rivers Landing, 20 miles above the junction, the 
character of some artifacts found shows орнар influence. 
At Hooks’ Plantation, at Three Rivers Landing, and at Gaines’ Candin, 27 
miles above Three Rivers Landing, urn-burials were present in the mounds. In 
the mound near Bashi creek, 66 miles farther up the river, however, were the re- 
mains of a single urn-burial. 
At Payne’s Woodyard, 35 miles above the junction, at Carney’s Bluff, 10 
miles farther up, were the “ rock mounds.” 
At Payne’s Woodyard, at Carney’s Bluff, in the mound in Kimbell’s Field, 10 
miles above Carney’s Bluff, entire vessels of earthenware had been placed in the 
mounds as offerings to the dead. If we exclude urn-burials, a different custom 
entirely, no other votive offerings of vessels of earthenware were met with by us 
on the whole river, with the exception of one small vessel of inferior ware found 
just below Columbus, Miss. 
At Beaver creek, 139 miles above the junction, and again north of Beaver 
creek ; at Breckenridge Landing, 5 miles above Beaver creek ; at Rembert's Landing, 
11 miles farther up the river; and at Bickley’s Landing, one mile above Rembert s, 
were found numerous small mounds grouped together. These localities are all on 
the eastern side of the river and are within an area having a diameter of six miles. 
At Bryan’s Burn, 159 miles above the junction, the region of the great domi- 
ciliary mounds begins and continues northward as far as our investigations went. 
Opposite Peavey’s Landing, however, 88 miles below Bryan’s Burn, is a domiciliary 
mound of a size entitling it to rank among the great ones of the upper river. 
1 In summing up we shall include, also, that part of the river РИИ by usin 1901. АП 
distances given are measured miles, following the course of the гіу 
