182 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
has been done by us to explain the absence of investigation on our part and for 
no other purpose. 
Although in our “Certain Aboriginal Mounds of the Georgia Coast”! we have 
diseussed various forms of aboriginal burial, it may afford information to some 
to have the matter presented again. 
The extended burial, as its name implies, is at full length, usually on the 
back, very exceptionally face down. 
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Ес. 1.—4A skeleton closely flexed to Fia. 2.—A skeleton partly flexed to the right. The 
the right. The trunk and extremities are trunk and extremities are in the same plane. 
in the same plane. 
The skeleton closely flexed to the right or the left, lies with the upper part 
of the trunk on the back, the lower extremities drawn up close to the body, the 
legs back against the thighs, these extremities directed to the right or the left, 
as the case may be, as shown in Fig. 1, in which a burial closely flexed to the 
right is represented. | 
The burial partly flexed to the right or the left is similar to the closely-flexed 
burial just described, with the exception that the thighs are less closely flexed 
and the legs are not drawn up immediately against the thighs. A burial partly 
flexed to the right is shown in Fig. 2. а 
А skeleton closely flexed on the right or left lies with the trunk on the side, 
the extremities closely flexed against the body, to the right or the left, as shown 
in Fig. 3, in which a burial closely flexed on the right is represented. 
A burial partly flexed on the right or the left has the trunk on the side, the 
thighs less closely flexed against the trunk, the legs separated from the thighs 
to a lesser or greater extent, as may be seen in Fig. 4, which illustrates a skeleton 
partly flexed on the right. 
The reader will note that the expression right or left applies to the skeleton 
and not to the right hand or to the left hand of the observer who is facing it. 
The bunched burial sometimes consists of loosely piled bones with no attempt 
at arrangement, and sometimes of masses of long-bones lying parallel, with skulls 
placed on top or at the side. A good example of the latter kind is shown in our 
“Certain Mounds of Arkansas and of Mississippi,” Fig. 1. 
! Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Vol. XI, p. 6 et seq. 
? Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Vol. XIII. 
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