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the aborigines when making other burials; and there were, of course, many 
burials that had been disturbed by the plow. 
Fire had been employed but once. A skeleton lay in order down to the upper 
part of the thorax, unaffected by heat. From this point downward were charcoal 
and fragments of bones, including parts of the lower long-bones, some of which 
were burned considerably, but were not calcined. 
Most of the bones at Greer were in better condition than we have been accus- 
tomed to find them, some skulls being saved. Nearly all the skulls and fragments 
of skulls showed antemortem compression, though there were exceptions to this 
rule. 
Burial No. 59 at Greer has been referred to in the introductory portion of 
this report. Many long-bones of this skeleton, which show marks of a specific 
disease, were sent to the United States Army Medical Museum, while the skull is 
at the United States National Museum and is included in the report by Doctor 
Hrdlička. This burial was 2 feet below the surface. The skeleton was partly 
flexed on the right side, a distinctly aboriginal form of burial. There were no 
artifaets with it, but it lay among burials which had them. 
Not many feet from Burial No. 59 were recent burials in coffins, doubtless the 
remains of negroes, former laborers on the plantation. 
We do not believe, however, that under the circumstances as we have given 
them, there can be any ground to suppose that Burial No. 59 can have been recent. 
But few artifacts, with the exception of pottery, lay with the dead. 
A neatly made *celt," rounded at one end, after the southern fashion, lay 
near a burial. This implement we presented to a visitor. 
There were also, associated with human remains: a few shell beads in several 
instances; several tines of deer-horn, each showing marks of separation from the 
antler by the aid of a cutting-tool; a piercing implement of bone with the articular 
part remaining; two implements (found separately) similar in every respect to the 
last, with the exception that the points are blunt and rounded— seemingly just 
fitted to make broad lines on clay previous to firing; three fragmentary teeth found 
together, probably incisors of the beaver; a number of lanceheads and knives, 
of chert; and a small and beautifully-made double-pointed implement of chal- 
cedon y. 
With a burial were a number of tubular beads of sheet-copper, with overlap- 
ping edges, which had stained bright green a cervical vertebra and the chin. Some 
of these beads, analyzed by Dr. H. F. Keller, proved to be of the purest copper, as 
we have related in the early part of this report, a copper far too pure to have 
been obtained from Europeans, whose supply was derived from impure, sulphide 
ores. 
In the soil, but not associated with burials, were the usual hammer-stones, 
broken and whole; also chisels and cutting implements, some wrought from chert 
pebbles; a small dise, probably of fine-grained sandstone; and a piercing imple- 
ment of bone, with a perforation at the blunt end. 
