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Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 
TABLE II 
MADRID 
A. VILLAGE TRAITS 
Mounds 
ditch ; loc?.ted on banks of ancient watercourse. 
b. Open plaza near center surrounded by mounds— prob- 
ably for ceremonial use. 
c. One or more large ceremonial mounds often truncate. 
a. 
B. HOUSE TRAITS 
Circular house pits about 30 feet in diameter. 
b. Depressed rectangular floor plan. 
c. Some walls set in trenches. 
d. Wattle and daub wall construction between inner and 
outer row of small posts. Larger interior posts. 
e. Central fireplace. One house site with puddled clay fire- 
place with raised rim. 
f. Doorway generally facing watercourse. 
C BURIAL TRAITS 
a. Burials in low rounded mounds. 
b. Burials in small plots of shallow pits outside houses. 
c. Flesh burials in extended or semi-flexed positions. 
d. Grave goods present with burials. 
a. La 
D. CERAMIC TRAITS 
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D. Bowls, finely shell tempered, polished dark ware, deep 
to shallow rnrv«^ r^^ „l^^:__ -j r, . , '. . 5 
curved 
toms, 4 or 6 points scalloped rims, plain or incised 
decoration, effigy flanges. 
^' ^^li^f'i ^H'" n^'^'^^y ^^^" tempered polished ware, 
globular to flattened globular body shapes, long and 
short necks, some effigy shapes, few painted. 
shl'llnw''^"*u^^"^S^''^ ^^^J^ polished ware, deep or 
shal ow with wide flat rims and rounded or flat bot- 
toms, often incised with efiigy flanges. 
^' wfti ^''i'"^ globular shell tempered unpoli ' ' — 
with and without handles, lugs, and flanges. 
g 
u.;.rrf.r"c*'^*^^i'^'' ^}\ tempered vessels, bowls, jars, 
rbriclmprelfd"^'^^ "''''■ P^^^" '' ^^^^^ ^^^ °^ 
^t!^f wi" '''^P'■'''" h'^ fi'^^^y shell tempered or clay- 
foLZT ' J^'^' ^1^^^ ^' °"^ ^"d ^nd small one it 
mdsed s^"f ' ^"^"^^^^"^ ^"t unpolished, undecorated or 
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