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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    the original surface, we found the most remarkable deposits, both as to quantity and variety, that it had, so far, been our fortune to unearth. We will describe these in the order in which we came upon them. To aid the reader in locating the various objects, we shall give their distance from the inner edge of the stone pavement (a) at the southern end, and east and west, as the case may be, of the longer axis, which may be called the middle line of the mound. At fourteen feet inside of and four feet west of this line, were some fragments of a cremated skele- ton (b), small portions of the skull of which le- mained, showing very distinctly the marks of fire. The burning had evidently taken place elsewhere. Alongside of these pieces of bones lay the outer whorl of a sea-shell (c), measuring seven by twelve and a half inches. It was placed in a mass of very fine black earth, and, like the one found near the top of the mound, was filled with sand. It may be a matter of some significance that all the shells of the kind we refer to present this same peculiar feature. They are either partially or en- tirely filled with sand, wholly free from clay or oravel, as if taken from a stream of water. ° At twenty-five feet inside of the middle line were three pockets (d), two feet apart, nearly m an east and west line. The most western one was four feet 1 The diagram given, Fig. XVI., which represents the ground-plan vdl be of assistance, although not accurate in every particular. . le °rlS' drawing, made at the time of the excavation, was lost, and this is made from the description in the text.—W . K. M.