204 ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
more than ten miles away, that the superb deposit of flint implements now in 
possession of the Missouri Historical Society, to which we have already alluded in 
the introductory remarks, was found. 
DWELLING-SITE AT PrEvATT’s LANDING BENTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE. 
At Prevatt’s Landing, the property of Mr. H. E. Whitfield, living nearby, is 
a ridge in a cultivated field bordering the river bank, composed of rich, dark, 
loamy sand and having on the surface fragments of pottery, cord-marked when 
bearing any decoration, and some flint, including a few arrowheads. Other 
arrowheads of flint were encountered in the digging, as were several piercing imple- 
ments of bone, wasters of flint, a sphere of silicious material pecked into shape, 
slightly oblate on one side, having a diameter of З inches. Неге and there in the 
soil, as well as on the surface, were fragments of fresh-water shells. 
Eighteen burials, fourteen of adults, four of infants or of older children, were 
unearthed, none deeper than about 3 feet, some in the dark sand of which the 
dwelling-site was composed, others on the underlying, yellow, undisturbed sand, 
and a few let down into it a short distance. 
The adult skeletons, the crania of which were found without uniformity of 
direction, had been buried as follows: 
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Burial No. 1 lay on the right side, the right leg closely flexed while the left leg 
was only partly so. 
Burial No. 4, a skeleton rather closely flexed on the right side in a semi- 
reclining position against the sloping wall of the grave-pit, the skull being 22 
inches from the surface, while the pelvis and lower extremities were at a depth 
of 40 inches. The right humerus lay along the body, having the forearm flexed 
to the right shoulder. The left humerus was also parallel to the body, but the 
forearm was across the trunk. "The legs were closely flexed on the thighs. 
Burials Nos. 13 and 16, skeletons each having the trunk on the back, the thighs 
flexed vertically, the legs back against them. Along the outer side of the right 
humerus of Burial No. 16 were the bones of an infant, the head being in the oppo- 
site direction from that of the adult skeleton. 
Four skulls, some in poor condition, were saved from this place. 
Although the site at Prevatt's Landing is but two miles from the mouth of 
Duck river, along whose banks such interesting discoveries of artifacts have been 
reported, not a single object can positively be said to have been found by us 
with any burial in the Prevatt's Landing site. About 15 inches from a skeleton, 
and at a somewhat higher level, were two rude, chipped implements of flint—small 
hoes or hatchets—each about 6 inches in length, placed upright, together. 
