SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON GREEN RIVER, KENTUCKY. 
CERTAIN ABORIGINAL SITES ON LOWER OHIO RIVER. 
ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATION ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 
By CLARENCE B. Moore. 
INTRODUCTION. 
Green river, having its source in central Kentucky, runs westwardly to its 
junction with Barren river,! after which its general course is westward and north- 
ward until its union with Ohio river, a few miles above the city of Evansville, 
Indiana, which is, as we know, across the Ohio. 
Green river, which, with the aid of a series of dams and locks, is navi- 
gable as far up as Mammoth Cave, 196 miles following the course of the stream, 
was to that place searched carefully in advance of our visit, by J. S. Raybon, 
captain of our steamer, and a companion, and was gone over by our expedition 
ascending to Mammoth Cave and descending. The time devoted by us to this 
work, addresses of owners of properties and permission to dig having been 
obtained in advance, was nine weeks of the fall and winter of 1915-1916, the 
remainder of nearly five months being devoted to rather profitless work on 
Ohio and Mississippi rivers. 
There has been no systematic search along Green river preceding our own, 
though some digging has been done, probably through local endeavor. 
The river was dammed and locked about 1830, and the land bordering that 
part visited by us is cultivated throughout, so that such mounds and other sites 
as there are on the river have been known for a long time. The mounds are small 
and sometimes are used as sites for pens for stock; some are composed of masses 
of rock and of clay—usually an unproductive kind from an archeological point 
of view—and a few are of raw clay and seemingly were not made for burial 
purposes. 
Aboriginal dwelling-sites along the river are few and as a rule are small. 
A number of the mounds have been dug into, while the smaller ones, as well 
as numerous dwelling-sites, and some stone graves of which we heard, have been 
destroyed by cultivation. 
An interesting feature of our work this season was the knowledge gained by 
us that a class of so-called banner stones, oblong in form or of kindred shapes, 
1 Barren river, navigable to the city of Bowling Green, about thirty miles by water, was searched 
as far as that town by our agents, who failed to discover any site of interest upon it. 
