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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    tended beyond our trencb on each side, but ran out just before we reached the centre. We found the badly decayed bones of two indi- viduals, both extended on the back, with heads to the east. The first was on the burned clay, five feet from its southern edge. The head of the second lay over a hole eighteen inches deep, which had been dug in the original soil at the centre of the mound; at the bottom of this hole were some flakes of mica and small pieces of charcoal. On the head of the second skeleton was a fine slate gorget (see Fig. xxvm.) At a foot northwest of the centre was a child’s tooth, and close by a small amount of red ochre. No traces of bone were discovered. Three feet north and five feet west of the centre, was a hole three feet deep and two feet in diameter, which con- tained pieces of human bones—possibly it was a sort of vault in which a folded body or skeleton had been placed. Nothing else was unearthed, except some frag- ments of pottery, enough to form a small vessel, which lay at the edge of our trench, northwest of the centre.