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been opened frequently an 



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af little value to the archaeol- 



Human Remains. 



During the excavations at Tick Island over one hundred 

 skeletons were exhumed, and that many hundred still remain 

 is beyond the shadow of a doubt. 



The skeletons except one (now at Peabody Museum of 

 Archaeology) were in a very friable condition, owing to the 



Fig. 2. 

 End Section of Trench B. 

 A, layer of sand and loam mixed with shells, B, skeletons on white sand; C, 

 layer of white sand ; D, skeletons on the shell ; E, shell foundation of mound. 



moisture of the sand, requiring the utmost care in handling, 

 ana even in the majority of cases rendering futile the most 

 careful efforts to save them. The skeleton recovered entire 

 was in the main trench five feet from the margin of the mound 

 and three feet from the surface. It lay imbedded in the shelly 

 base and through impregnation with lime from its .surround- 

 ings it had escaped the decay oceuring to such a marked extent 

 in all the others. Above it the various strata were undis- 

 turbed, Showing it to ho. from nn in**. 



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