8 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL MOUNDS OF THE GEORGIA COAST. 



Age, when stated, was based upon an examination of the teeth and sometimes 

 of the epiphyses. When not otherwise stated in our descriptions, the skeleton is 

 that of an adult. 



All anatomical determinations have been made by Dr. M. G. Miller, who has 

 been present during all our field work in Georgia and in Florida. 



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Fig. 4. — Sherd with button-like decoration. (Full size.) 



We shall see that burials of infants in some localities, of adults in others, were 

 in large jars made of clay tempered with gravel, 1 almost invariably of the same 

 type, consisting of a rounded base, an almost cylindrical body, a slightly constricted 



neck and a flaring rim, whose margin was exteriorly decorated with circular im- 

 pressions, contiguous or nearly so, doubtless of a section of a reed (Fig. 3), or with 

 button-like ornaments some distance apart, made separately and impressed before 

 baking (Fig. 4), and which sometimes are seen to have fallen from their places, as 

 1 Termed gritty ware. This ware forms the majority of that found on the Georgia coast. 



