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female (see Plate XI-A). Lying on the skeleton were two clam 
shells, possibly used as spoons, and near the head was an in- 
verted bowl of plain, dark, polished shell tempered ware (P45)- 
Near the head of the deep gulley there was uncovered a 
burial plot at FIO containing the bones of four skeletons (see 
Plates XI-B and V-C). These were all laid out at full length 
with the feet of NMv3-2 resting on the head of NMv3-5 directly 
beneath it. NMv3-2 was an adolescent male and NMv3-5 an 
adult female. 
(P16) 
deer bone, a bottle (P17), and a pottery smoothing stone under 
the left ear. These burials were so close to the surface that 
the plow had struck and shattered the tops of the vessels. Just 
south of NMV3-5 lay another skeleton, NMv3-3, an adult female 
extended with the head to the east. At the back of the head was 
a water bottle (P15). Part of the left side of this skeleton had 
been lost, presumably by erosion. NMv3-4 was still nearer the 
edge of the gulley. The skull was missing and the burial was 
too badly destroyed to record. 
Another small burial plot was found outside the northwest 
comer of house Fl in T16. There had been two burials, one a 
male, the other a female. The male skeleton, which was badly 
disturbed, lay at a depth of 1.5 feet and had no associated ob- 
jects. The female was half a foot deeper and was accompanied 
by a bottle on one side of the head and a bowl, small cup, and 
notched shell spoon on the other side (see Plate XII-A). All 
the vessels were plain, shell tempered ware. The spoon was 
too 
and NMoU. In NMolO 
NMolO 
quarter. 
upper 
bones 
ciated with two small shell tempered pots with handles. As 
NMoll human remains, which were much 
turbed, were found covered over by the charred remnants »f a 
dwelling just below the plow line. There was no apparent grave 
and the bones could be those of the occupant who mi^ht have 
perished in the collapse of the structure. The low four foot 
mound had been heaped over this dwelling, thus mdicating, per- 
hap 
patterns of NMoll 
found in a small r.^^• 
In one of the lower 
,- of the floor. This might have 
mdicated the practice of infanticide, as nothing but refuse was 
found in the pit. 
NM012 was a true burial mound with dozens of burials laid 
