Primitive man in Ohio / by Warren K. Moorehead.

  • Moorehead, Warren K. (Warren King), 1866-1939.
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Primitive man in Ohio / by Warren K. Moorehead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There were two skeletons about three feet below the surface at the highest point of the mound; nothing had been placed with them, and they were evidently intrusive burials. One foot below the surface, near the western side of the trench, about twenty feet from the margin at which we began, was the outer whorl of a sea-shell. It measured six inches in width by ten and a half inches in length, and the whorl and edges had been cut down with great care, and had apparently been used as a vessel. It was filled with clean, fine sand, and lay with the opening downward. With these exceptions there were no objects found anywhere above the base of the mound. Possibly the shell had been buried with a body whose last trace had disappeared by reason of its juoximity to the surface. If this was the case, it may reasonably be looked upon as an intrusive burial, like the skele- tons mentioned. The mound was distinctly stratified, although the strata were not always regular, being thicker in some parts than in others. Beginning at the top it was composed of: Black soil, one foot. Gravel, one foot. Brown earth, or loam, three inches. Yellow clayey loam, three inches. Black soil, six inches. Clean white sand, eight inches. Black soil containing pebbles, three to four inches. Gravel, mixed with a clayey sand, one foot. Immediately underneath this bottom layer, upon