Matthews 
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in tiers throughout the pile.^ According to the 1878 account, as 
many as 6 were piled on top of one another at the center. This 
site had been s© thoroughly dug over that our work failed to 
discover a single undisturbed skeleton, although a couple of un- 
broken vessels, a bowl, and a pot, and a handful of other speci- 
mens were recovered. One of the disturbed skulls had evidence 
of occipital flattening, perhaps as an indication of social rank 
( 
This was the only site 
which yielded true painted pottery, some sherds of a red and 
white design being discovered. A ware with a red slip was 
rarely encountered in, the village test pits. 
Matthew 
in Table I. 
VL DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIMENS 
Artifact Analysis 
The 288 artifacts found at the Matthews site fall into 3 
main categories — stone, flint, and bone, although evidences of 
the use of shell, galena, and cannel coal were also found. 
The stone artifacts are crude, heavy, unground specimens 
such as hamniers, anvils, metates, mullers, and grooved sand- 
stones used as tool sharpeners. Ground stones comprise celts. 
puds, polishers, and discoidals (Plate XIII-B). 
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