98 THE ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN ANAU. 
culture, and the deeper-lying pottery fragments of group x would have to be 
explained as belonging with the burial. This, however, I consider improbable; 
for the number of the younger pottery fragments is too small, only one or two 
having been found daily in these lower layers. We shall be much more correct 
in assuming that the four bodies were buried by the same people who used the 
painted pithoi. In any case, these pithoi are an infallible proof that at the level 
of +25 feet we are already in the strata of the older culture. Henceforth we may 
assign to the older culture all layers in which similar pithoi are found 7n situ. 
Terrace III (see figs. 32 and 33).—Terrace 111, excavation of which began on 
March 31, lies with its upper edges lower than terrace 11, much lower than terrace I 
(see plan, fig. 22). Below the surface we soon came, at the south wall, upon pottery 
fragments, upright and close together, resembling the incrustation on the earth 
walls in the quadrangle of terrace I. It was not possible, however, to determine 
either the thickness or the trend of the earth walls or the character of the potsherds, 
which were light-colored 
and very poorly preserved. 
Near by, in the middle of 
the digging, a skeleton was 
discovered at +27 feet and 
uncovered by Mr. Warner. 
It was probably contracted 
in Hocker position, but this 
is not certain, because the 
skull and leg bones were 
almost destroyed by the 
workmen. 
Lower down, at +18 
feet, in the southwest corner 
of the digging, there were 
found in situ the bottoms of two painted pithoi, their positions warranting the 
conclusion that one of them had become useless and the other had been placed 
upon its remains (see fig. 34). They are, therefore, as in terrace 11, evidences 
of settlements of the older culture. After removing these, there came to light, 
in situ, at the still deeper level of +16 feet, in about the same part of the terrace, 
a coarse domestic vessel with a diameter at top of 11.5 inches, and a height of 
24 inches. It is of a different technique from that of the painted pithoi, and 
as the exterior is heavily incrusted with soot and the earth in the interior and 
around the external surface is much mixed with charcoal, the vessel would appear 
to be in situ and to have been employed as a kettle for cooking (see fig. 35). Here 
also, then, is evidence of a succession of superimposed settlements belonging to 
the older culture. 
The skeleton uncovered above, however, must belong to the younger culture. 
It can not have been an inserted burial of later times, as its position immediately 
under the surface of the hill might at first sight indicate, because the finds accom- 

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Fig. 34.—Pithos in Terrace III. 
