Excavations in an Erie Indian village and burial site at Ripley, Chautauqua Co., N.Y.; being the record of the State Museum Archeological Expedition of 1906 - Softcover

Parker, Arthur Caswell

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ISBN 10: 1236273737 ISBN 13: 9781236273734

Verlag: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...head east, face north, right side, flexed position. Grave XL, pit 69, at 20' on the west side of trench 12 was 42" deep. It contained no trace of human remains. A pitcher-shaped pot was found on the east side of the excavation see pi. 28, fig. 4. Grave XLI, pit 86, at 55' on the east side of trench 10 was 53" deep. It contained the skeleton of an adult male the bones of which were badly crumbled. 10" before the face of the skull was a small pottery vessel with one projecting and raised point, the whole pot being decorated with the marks of a cord-wrapped paddle pi. 28, fig. 6. Directly north of the top of the skull was a pottery pipe of the trumpet shape pi. 31, fig. 5 and between the pot and the pipe were a celt, a chisel of shale, a worked beaver's incisor, a flint and steel and several worked bones much decayed. The grave bottom was in the clay stratum which accounts for the poor condition of the osseous matter. Orientation: head east, face north, right side, flexed position. Grave XLII, pit 87, at 56" in trench 10 on the west side was 34" deep. No bones besides a few molar caps of an infant of 6 or 8 were found. A large pottery vessel, F444 pi. 29, fig. 1, with an ancient rim break and showing signs of prolonged use was found in one end of the excavation near the teeth. Grave XLIII, pit 88, was between pits 86 and 87, at 56' in trench 10. In the grave bottom 48" below the surface was found a deposit of fine bone dust resting on the clay. Pottery vessel F443 was found in this grave pi. 28, fig. 5. Grave XLIV, pit 89, was at 67' in the middle of trench 10. On the grave bottom 38" below the surface lay a disintegrating adult skeleton too soft and brittle for removal. There were no objects in the grave. Orientation: head s...

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• Verlag: RareBooksClub.com
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1236273737
• ISBN 13: 9781236273734
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 34