120 THE ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN ANAU. 
Terrace C presents us with a skeleton grave, to confirm the rule that the 
dead were buried near the hearth. It lay in the southeast corner of the excava- 

Fig. 53.—Fireplace in Stage of Excavation. 
tion at the level of +20 feet 
5 inches (see special report of 
Warner)—1. e., about 3 feet 
below the original floor of the 
room. The position of the 
hearth and skeleton grave inside 
of terrace C, together with the 
wall seen in the west side, is 
shown in fig. 54. Traces of a 
still older period were discovered 
in the southwest corner of the 
terrace after removing the 
hearth and in the general down- 
ward progress of the excavation. 
At +18 feet 5 inches stood the 
remains of a pithos (height 66 
cm., circumference 1 meter 60 
em.) of light greenish-yellow 
clay, made on the wheel. 
The pottery found in terrace C was of considerably mixed older and younger 
groups. In enlarging the terrace the surface covering of the hill had repeatedly to 

Fig. 54.—Fireplace in Stage of Excavation. (Skeleton in Position.) 
be removed. Owing to this and 
to the steepness of the declivity, 
remains of the upper younger 
culture must have fallen in; but, 
on the other hand, whenever the 
layers of the terrace were isolated 
from the surface, the pottery 
corresponded throughout to the 
finds of terrace B. ‘There were 8 
finds of copper, consisting of frag- 
ments of dagger-blades, pins, awls, 
and a ring. ‘The smaller finds 
are also analogous to those in ter- 
race B—beads of agate, turquoise, 
and stone, especially marble; frag- 
ments of stone vessels, etc. 
The finds in the shafts men- 
tioned above contributed materi- 
ally to the collection of ceramic 
materials. ‘The chief result in this respect was the discovery that the making of 
the ware of light-colored clay, in wheel-technique, dates from the earliest period 
of the kurgan. For the rest, I refer to the section concerning special finds. 
