MOUNDVILLE REVISITED. 
By CLARENCE D. Moore. 
In the season of 1905 we conducted an investigation in the mounds and 
cemeteries near Moundville, Ala., which place, near the Black Warrior river, is 
but a few miles distant from the city of Tuscaloosa. Later, we published an 
account? of our work at Moundville. 
At the time of this investigation a comparatively small, but seemingly desira- 
ble, part of the plateau was not dug into by us on account of the advanced state 
of the cotton which had been planted upon it. To explore this portion, and to do 
additional work in other parts investigated by us before, we returned to Moundville 
in November, 1906, with the cordial approval of Messrs. Hardy Clements of Tus- 
caloosa, and С. S. Prince of Moundville, owners of the mounds and cemeteries near 
Moundville, with whose consent our previous work had been done. 
As what we considered a thorough investigation of the mounds had been 
made at our first visit, we devoted but little time to them on our return—digging 
into none of them with the exception of Mound Q. This mound had been well 
covered with trial-holes without result. But as it had on its summit plateau dark, 
rich soil to a considerable depth, and as in soil of this kind burials usually are 
present and because, in the material thrown out from a trial-hole, one of our 
diggers had found a small ornament of sheet-copper, we decided to give the mound 
another trial. 
On our second visit, the summit plateau of Mound Q was fairly riddled by us 
with trial-holes. Our former judgment was confirmed. 
A plan of the Moundville mounds, prepared by Dr. M. G. Miller, who has had 
charge of the anatomical part of all our investigations, accompanies this report, 
for the literary revision of which, and of the other papers in this volume, we are 
indebted to Mr. F. W. Hodge. | 
Somewhat less than one month was spent by us at Moundville on our second 
visit, with a force of from ten to sixteen men to dig. Every part of the great 
plateau in the neighborhood of the mounds, which seemed to offer any chance for 
results, was dug into by из. In many instances no burials were found; in others 
burials widely apart were encountered with which were no artifacts. In a few 
localities our work was rewarded. 
! Formerly called Carthage and so spoken of in Pickett’s “ History of Alabama"; Thruston's 
* Antiquities of Tennessee”; et al. : 
T Certain Aboriginal Remains of the Black Warrior River.” Journal of the Academy of 
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