CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 7 



previous to inhumation but were held together by ligaments when placed in the 

 sand. Occasionally, some bone or bones in a position not to be accounted for under 

 the hypothesis of shifting sand, testifies to this. 



Of the burials in anatomical order, the "flexed" burial predominates. This 

 form consists in placing the remains usually on the right or on the left side and 



drawing the knees and chin well together with the legs drawn up almost parallel 

 to the thighs. The arms occupy almost any position except an extended one. 

 This form of burial doubtless recommended itself through economy of space, — a 

 flexed skeleton calling for a grave not much over three feet in length. Fig. 2 

 shows a typical "flexed" burial. 



In determination of sex there have been consulted the conformation of the 

 forehead, the glabella, the superciliary ridges, the thickness of the outer upper 



margin of the orbit, the character of the facial bones, the muscular marking of the 

 temporal region, size of mastoid process, size of external occipital protuberance and 

 muscular markings in its vicinity, character of lower jaw, size of mental promi- 

 nences, form of clavicle, size and muscular markings of the bones in general. 



