582 CERTAIN MOUNDS OF ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI. 
CEMETERY NEAR GREER, JEFFERSON COUNTY. 
Greer, a small settlement, is on the right bank of the Arkansas river, going 
up, 27 miles by water above the city of Pine Bluff. At Greer is the plantation of 
Mr. С. B. Greer, five or six thousand acres in extent. After considerable bargain- 
ing with this gentleman, carried on through his son, we aequired the right to dig 
on the plantation. 
On the Greer estate is an aboriginal mound that has been used as a ceme- 
tery in recent times, and which is covered with tombstones and is carefully 
fenced in. 
In the field surrounding the mound were many signs of aboriginal occupancy, 
such as bits of pottery; arrowpoints of chert, broken as a rule; pebbles; chips of 
chert, etc. Тһе canine tooth of a large carnivorous animal, and a 
small and neatly made “сей,” lay upon the surface, as did also a 
small ornament, probably of sedimentary rock, with a cutting edge at 
one end and a hole for suspension at the other (Fig. 47). 
Investigation was carried on by sinking trial-holes and. trenches 
where signs of occupancy seemed most promising, and then by digeing 
throughout the area where burials were encountered. 
Most of our successful digging was done in two small areas, one 
about 40 yards in a southerly direction from the mound ; the other 
about 30 yards northeast of it, where burials were found in consider- 
able numbers, eighty in all being encountered, twenty of which were 
of infants and of older children. 
Fic. 47.—Pend- These burials, none of whieh was more than 2 feet from the sur- 
(Pulls) ^ face (few attaining that depth), consisted, as a rule, of skeletons at 
length on the back and of those in a flexed position. 
There occurred, in addition, a number of times, three rather unusual forms of 
interment which, however, are modifications of the same form, namely : 
1. Where the trunk lay upon the back, the thighs raised upward and parted 
somewhat, with the legs bent back on the thighs. 
2. The trunk on the back, the thighs widely separated and drawn up, the 
legs flexed against the thighs. 
3. The thighs and legs in the position just described with the trunk bent 
forward, sometimes to such an extent that the skull touched the pubic part of the 
pelvis, and sometimes so that the cranium rested to one side of the pelvis. 
These forms were encountered ten times in all: once in the site southward 
from the mound, and nine times in the area northeast of it, though about the same 
number of burials was present in each site. 
But one bunched burial was found at Greer, and this one unmistakably was of 
the bunched variety, inasmuch as some long-bones belonging to at least three skele- 
tons were neatly piled, parallel—with but one skull, however, which lay beneath 
the pile. 
There were present also disturbances in which bones had been disarranged by 
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