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Briefly summarized, the outstanding differences and resemblances 
between the decorative art on the pottery and other objects at Uren, and 
at later Neutral sites in the same county and Waterloo county, are as 
follows: 
More extensive decoration at Uren of the inside surfaces and on top 
of the edges of pots, but in only one instance decoration extending beyond 
the neck on the outside; less decoration of earthenware pipes, in no case 
elaborate; less decoration of bone objects; fewer carvings in the round; 
more groups of simple decorative elements than complex patterns com- 
posed of two or more different elements; fewer rectilinear designs; a few 
curvilinear designs; a design resembling a fret; zigzags with angles bisected 
by other lines; and V-shaped figures. 
The resemblances or correspondences in art are few, although certain 
identities in pottery decoration can be seen. Both at Uren and at later 
Neutral sites there is the human face motive, consisting of three impressed 
circles; notches on the angles of the rim margins, and longitudinal lines 
on top of the rims; designs composed of alternating horizontal lines and 
rows of short perpendicular and oblique lines; and reticulate designs. 
Ornamental heads and grooves occur on bone awls. 
In addition to the correspondences noted on page 21, the extensive 
decoration of the inside surfaces of the rims accords with that on Algonkian 
pottery from Ontario generally. The embossed nodes and the curved 
lines suggest, the affinity of the art here with that on certain pottery, 
possibly Andaste, found in Wyoming valley, Pennsylvania, 1 and with that 
on Holmes’ “Northwestern Group” of pottery, the ethnic provenience of 
which has as yet not been ascertained. 
BURIALS 
No human skeletons were found during the excavations of the refuse 
deposits, neither did trenching in the most likely spots of other parts of 
the site bring any to light. A skeleton, however, was plowed up by Daniel 
Gould, between deposits 14 and 16, nearly opposite deposit 2. One was 
found on the Mash farm, a few hundred feet north of deposit 20, in 1922. 
Another skeleton was found by John Bowerman in one of the fields in the 
next concession, south of the site. Skeletons have been discovered at all 
the other nearby sites of the same culture — on the Williams, Oddy, McLeod, 
Campbell, and Huggins farms. 
A few stray human bones were found in deposit 1. These comprise a 
fragment of what seems to be the parietal of a child, the lower jaw of an 
adult, two molar teeth, and the head of a femur. Both of the teeth are 
pathological, and the triturating surface of one has been worn down until 
the cusps disappeared. That the lower jaw belonged to an aged individual 
is suggested by the loss of all the teeth and the almost entire absorption of 
the alveolar processes. 
The occurrence of these stray human remains, associated with the 
bones of food animals, suggests that the inhabitants of this site possibly 
practised ceremonial cannibalism. 
1 See also other correspondences noted on previous pages. 
