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4. The occasional deposit in cave floor of partially cremented re- 

 mains, 3 the actual burning having taken place elsewhere. 4 



5. The association with cremated remains of some and often many 

 well-made artifacts. 5 These offerings never include pottery. 



6. The common use of two-holed flat and bar gorgets. 6 Gorgets 

 were made of hematite, cannel coal, steatite, slate, and limestone. 



7. The finding of oval vessels of steatite, with end lugs, cut from a 

 solid block. 



8. The use of a wide range of stemmed and unstemmed projectile 

 points. There was, however, an entire absence of small triangular 

 points. 



9. The considerable use of bone for awls and scrapers. 



10. The use of bone fishhooks. 



11. The use of cups and spoons cut from carapace of tortoise. 



12. The finding of the femora of bear cut squarely off and hollowed 

 out. These may have been used as handles, but some are found 

 charred inside as if used as a torch containing grease. 



13. Practically speaking, no use was made of worked shell. 



14. Pottery was gravel tempered, of coarse texture, and usually had 

 grass or cord paddle marking. 



15. Rims of vessels were plain and straight, without handles or lugs. 



16. The entire absence of any evidence of the smoking custom. 

 From an inspection of the material evidence from this site one is 



driven to the conclusion that the occupants of this cave have no con- 

 nection with the builders of the earth mounds and village sites of the 

 Basin, but that their cultural affinities are to be sought elsewhere. 



However, besides the similarity in traits at this site with the rock 

 shelter above referred to, some of the potsherds found in this cave 

 are remarkably similar to those reported by Harrington 7 from upper 

 Tennessee River near Lenoir City, Tenn., and classified as belonging 

 to his "round-grave culture." He described this type of sherd as 

 "marked with parallel corrugated indentations" and asserted a belief 

 based on its association that it was not of Cherokee origin. 



Claflin 8 has found a similar pottery type at Stallings Island, Ga., 

 and similar sherds are reported by Bushnell 9 from Kellys Ford, Va., 

 on the Rappahannock. Bushnell expresses the belief that these 

 "parallel corrugated indentations" as described by Harrington were 



8 Funkhouser and Webb, 1930, p. 272. 



4 Bushnell, 1920, pp. 38, 147. See also Father Sebastien Rasles in Jesuit Relations, 

 vol. lxvii, pp. 154-159. 



6 Funkhouser and Webb, 1930, p. 274. 



6 Ibid., p. 251. 



7 Harrington, M. R., 1922, pi. xlvii, 6. 

 » Claflin, W. H., 1931, pi. 27. 



• Bushnell, 1935, p. 94. 



