338 MOUNDVILLE REVISITED. 
While, beyond question, objects of interest must yet lie buried at Mound- 
ville, it is our belief they are widely scattered—too widely so to warrant sustained 
investigation. At all events our work at this interesting place is, in all probability, 
ended. 
At our former visit to Moundville, no urn-burials were met with. At our 
second investigation, however, two were encountered which, later, will be more 
fully described. One of these lay at a depth of about four feet among undis- 
turbed burials of other kinds, and surely was contemporary with these prehistoric 
interments. | 
On our first visit, no human remains were recovered entire. 
On our second visit, some bones in somewhat better condition were found, 
owing, perhaps, to the fact that most of our successful work was done in the 
ground south of Mound D, which is a narrow plateau having deep gullies on two 
sides, which possibly are conducive to better drainage. However, a number of 
bones, including one skull, came from localities at Moundville other than the one 
we have named. 
Two skulls were recovered intact. One of these is now in the collection of 
the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (catalogue number 2233). The 
other skull is at the United States Army Medical Museum, Washington, D. C., and 
has been reported on by Dr. Ales Hrdlička as follows: 
“Тһе skull which you wished me to examine, marked ‘ Field near Md. М., 
Burial No. 57, Moundville, Alabama,’ and preserved in the Army Medical Museum, 
shows the following features: 
“The cranium is that of a young female adult. It presents a slight and 
mainly postparietal, accidental (cradle-board), compression. 
“Тһе specimen shows plain Indian features. Its consistency and good state 
of preservation of some of the more delicate bones, suggest but a moderate anti- 
quity. In type it approaches the form that was common to the tribes of the 
southeast and those of later arrival speaking the Creek language. It is impossible 
to compare it with the Alibamese or other old tribes in Alabama, on account of 
lack of material: there are in the National Museum collection but four skulls from 
the State, and all these show artificial, * flat-head, deformation, which obscures the 
cranial type. 
“ Detailed Description and Measurements : 
“Тһе specimen shows average Indian features in almost every particular. 
The capacity is 1380 с.с., which indicates in a female a fair sized brain. In shape 
it is mesocephalie (cephalie index 78) and high (basion-bregma height 14.5 êm. y, 
but a slight shortening and augmentation in height is due to the occipital compres- 
sion. The face presents a moderate alveolar prognathism, such as is usual among 
the Indians. The various ridges and processes indicate moderate muscular devel- 
opment. The sutures are all quite simple, and contain but three small Wormian 
ossicles (all in the lambdoid) ; those of the vault show no trace of occlusion. The 
base exhibits rather small middle lacerated foramina, but a slight depression of the 
