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and that a skeleton unearthed on March 31 in terrace mI was also, in all probability, 
buried in contracted position. Since similar skeletons appeared in terrace 11 
and in deeper layers (cf. special report of Warner), it was impossible to consider 
these as later burials, and the find in terrace 1 left no question that the skeleton 
graves belonged to the dwellings represented in the horizontal strata. 
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Fig. 22.—Plan of Excavations at North Kurgan, Anau. 
Nevertheless, to test still further the correctness of these conclusions, the 
southern half of the hill was attacked on April 1 in the same manner as 
the northern one. Here a trench 14 to 16 feet wide was dug, extending ina 
north-south direction; this trench being cut down in four terraces—Iv, v, VI, VII— 
