83 
Excavations in the Matthews Site, Nezv Madrid County, Mo. 
place, indicating complete combustion of a considerable arnou 
V 
ch 
of material. 
Artifacts and pottery were abundant in T9, Fl ; smal 
points of both flint and bone, knives, spear points, drills, 
hammer stones, and grooved tool-sharpeners were found- ^y^^ 
were bone awls, needles, flakers, and ornaments. In 3^^*^\ 
to the ordinary jars, bowls, bottles, plates, and pots, a J^^ 
press" was found in place in the southeast comer. Ott^^^ ^ 
jects of pottery including trowels, spindle whorls, diS<^^f 
plugs, effigy vessels, and a pipe came from differt ' '■'*'•'*« 
the house site. Other house sites contained similar rtx^ 
their fireplaces were less elaborate. 
House sites in the north end of the village were 
Sim 
structures, but at deeper levels they showed wall posts ^^*^ 
trenches which left definite dark stains in the yellowish ^ ay- 
Numerous postmolds, both inside and outside the dweliing'y P 
ably indicated interior furnishings, drying racks, etc. ^ , * 
outside the southwest cc 
used in the dressing of hides and skins. 
postm 
This might have been 
NMni and NMn6 evidences of "^^^'^ 
structures were found at several levels extending from ^^ ^ 
few inches to as much as 5 feet below the surfaces (Plate I-^" J' 
Although the structure nearest the surface in NM*11 was P^^ ^ 
disturbed by the plow, there was evidence that it ha" 
destroyed by fire. The bones of a human skeleton, pfoba y 
those of the occupant, were found just underneath the ^^^'^^.i^ 
timbers at the northeast corner of the structure. At a ^ 
of two feet there was a stratum of water-laid sand, and t>e 
this a series of overlapping house patterns, indicating a P^^ 
of village occupation prior to the building of the mound. ^ 
pottery and artifacts did not suggest any comp 
difference. 
f 
sites in the excavated area. Assuming that this was the ^^^^^^ 
of concentration over the entire village, and that all ^*^"f ^^.^^^i 
estimate 
population can be 
There were at least 10 bouses 
popuiauon can oe ucicnauicu. aucic «»-ic -^ xw.*^.. -- , 
visible in Plate IV in an area which is about 1/36 of the o^ 
area inside the village fortification, excluding the sink anci 
in the occupied area. 
the 
300 
IS occupying e^^" 
c inhabited sliriul- 
tj u^.,^ been 
1500, 
