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Fig. 72.— Burial No. 83. (Not on scale.) 



Burial No. 85, 1 foot N., skeleton of a dog. 



Mound D furnishes a good example of the curious forms of burial prevalent on 

 the Georgia coast. We do not think all the skeletons were intentionally arranged 

 as found, believing some, at least, were forced into pits comparatively small in size 



(for shovels in those early days were not so 

 convenient as now, and digging was more 

 onerous), and were twisted into positions 

 more or less the result of chance. The 

 burials at full length, usually at a great 

 comparative depth from the surface, were 

 unqestionably intentional as to their form, 

 though the placing of the skeleton on its 

 back or on its face may have been a matter 

 of accident. In addition, we have layers of 

 calcined human bones ; uncremated infant 

 skeletons buried in jars ; incinerated remains 

 of single infants in urns ; and jars filled with 

 incinerated remains, the result of a general 

 cremation. 



One curious feature was the presence of numerous skeletons of dogs, which 

 were not found in fragments, here and there a scattered bone, but interred in their 

 entirety. These dogs, therefore, evidently had not served as food. Curiously 

 enough, however, the dogs did not lie with or near human skeletons, as one would 

 expect had they been slain and buried with their masters, but were accorded inter- 

 ment by themselves. 



In no mound of the coast of Georgia have burials of dogs approached in number 

 those in Mound D, though occasional ones — always represented by the entire 

 skeleton — have been met with. 



In Florida we found in a shell-heap on the Econlockhatchee creek, Orange 

 County, a part of a canine jaw of considerable interest, which the late Professor 

 Cope described and figured in the American Naturalist, July, 1893, in connection 

 with certain references to prehistoric dogs in that number. 1 



Later, another fragmentary canine jaw was discovered by us in a Florida 

 shell-heap. 



On the base of the Tick Island mound, Volusia County, Florida, we found the 

 skeleton of a dog, the skull of which is now in the collection of the late Professor 

 Cope and was described by him in a note in our " Certain Sand Mounds of the St. 

 Johns River, Florida," Part II. 



On the base of the Light-house mound near Fernandina, Florida, were two 

 skeletons of dogs, one in very poor condition. The skull of the better preserved 

 one is in the possession of Professor Putnam and references to it by Professors Cope 



1 "Certain Shell Heaps of the St. Johns River, Florida, Hitherto Unexplored," by C. B. Moore. 

 Third paper. 



