CONCLUSIONS 



By William S. Webb 



In attempting to generalize on the relations which may have 

 existed among the 23 sites investigated in the survey of the Norris 

 Basin, it appears that on a basis of similar outstanding characters, 

 these sites naturally fall into four or five major divisions, which may 

 be enumerated as follows : 



Sites 



1. Stone mounds 2 



2. Caves 6 



3. Cemetery 1 



4. Burial mounds 3 



5. Earth mounds and villages 11 



Stone Mounds 



Of the stone mounds, Site No. 1 and Site No. 18, little can be 

 said by way of certain conclusion from data procured in this survey. 

 Both sites had been previously excavated and very largely destroyed. 

 These mounds, evidently burial mounds built of stone, were of the 

 usual small type, easily recognized by anyone, and were just such 

 as to attract the attention and excite the curiosity of the uninitiated. 

 Their small size made complete destruction easy. They usually 

 occur on the top of ridges or elevated terraces and are usually asso- 

 ciated with no other evidence of occupancy. They are known to 

 occur in southern Indiana, southern Ohio, central and eastern Ken- 

 tucky, West Virginia, and east Tennessee. Many other stone mounds, 

 occurring outside of Norris Basin, but in the general vicinity, seemed 

 to have all been destroyed by pothunters in a manner similar to 

 Sites Nos. 1 and 18. So general has been the destruction that it 

 may be doubted if enough of these stone mounds can be found un- 

 disturbed to yield their story if properly investigated. 



Cave Sites 



In this group may be placed six sites, namely, Sites Nos. 3, 12, 

 13, 14, 20, and 23. Of this group of sites, No. 20 was clearly not 

 a habitation site, but a natural cleft or rock fissure which had been 

 used as a place of deposit for the dead. As has been pointed out, 

 its chief interest consisted in the skeletal remains found scattered 



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