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ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORRIS BASIN 



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tural traits. While some traits are common to all of these sites, yet 

 other traits are found to occur only on sites in one group. To illus- 

 trate in part : while both groups had earth-covered town houses, and 

 showed multiple occupancy of sites and all structures were rectangu- 

 lar, yet one finds burned town-house structures, clay seats, square 

 altars, and cane impressions on town-house floors only in "small-log" 

 town houses and only in the sites showing "large-log" construction 

 does one find horizontal large log molds on town-house floors ; burials 

 in sitting posture in pits in the floor of town houses ; bone hairpins ; 

 and strap handles on pottery vessels. This offhand illustration of 

 the association of traits, taken at random from the tabulation, would 

 seem to indicate that separation of these sites into two groups on a 

 basis of type of construction of buildings leads to the correct separa- 

 tion and grouping of these sites as manifested by the presence or 

 absence of other traits. This fact is clearly brought out by the fol- 

 lowing analysis of the cultural traits. In fact, if no obvious basis 

 for separation, such as "large-log" and "small-log" construction, had 

 been observable, still the analysis of the remaining cultural traits 

 would have indicated the same, and it is believed the correct, division 

 of sites in the two groups. 



Tabulation of Cultural Teaits on All Sites Showing Post-Mold Patteens 





Sites 





2 



4 



5 



6 



8 



9 



10 



11 



17 



19 



GENEBAL TBAITS 



X 

 X 



X 



X 



X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 



X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 



X 



X 



X 

 X 

 X 



X 

 X 

 X 



"x 



X 

 X 

 X 



X 

 X 

 X 

 X 



X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 



x 





x 









x 





X 

 X 

 X 



"x 

 "x 



X 



"x 

 "x 



X 

 X 



"x 



X 















X 





x 



Small areas floored with river pebbles 













Midden deposited under mound 



X 

 X 



X 



X 



X 



X 



X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 



X 

 X 



"x 





STBUCTTJBE TBAITS 



Eectangular post-mold patterns. 



X 

 X 



x 



Dwelling-house patterns, not earth covered 





Dwelling-house patterns under mound 







X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 





Earth-covered town houses 



X 

 X 

 X 



X 



"x 



X 

 X 

 X 



x 





x 





x 



Orientation of structures in cardinal directions 







X 

 X 

 X 

 X 







X 

 X 

 X 





Town house constructed of small logs 



X 



"x 



X 

 X 

 X 









Base of wall posts set in trenches 









Corners of structure closed by small stakes. __ 









Corners of structure not clorcd by small stakes 



X 



x 



X 

 X 



x 



Door in corner of structure 





X 



— - 



X 

 X 

 X 



"x 



X 





Horizontal log molds on inside of trench 



X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 









Horizontal log molds on outside of trench 



"x 



X 

 X 



X 



"x 



X 



X 



X 

 X 

 X 











Burned town house structures, primary floor 











Cane and grass used as thatch 



.... 



X 



X 





Mats of woven cane and bark used on roof 





Slabs of bark used on roof of structure 









X 

 X 











Cane impressions on town-house floor 







X 



X 











Dwellings constructed of large logs 







X 



X 



X 

 X 



X 







Town house constructed of large logs 















x 



Horizontal large log molds on town-house floor 



















x 



Vertical cleavage plane over post molds 



X 











X 









