. Bulletin. Ethnology. 9) Layered clayey sands with targe burned areas Figure 31.—Profile of Mound A-3. Section of east wall of 1955 north-south trench. EXCAVATIONS IN MOUND A-3 Mound A-3 was the small feature south of the Ceremonial Court in which the sandstone cist (Feature A-3-a) was discovered in 1943. We carried out some minor tests here with two purposes in mind. The first was to attempt to coordinate our terminology with that of Wedel, who has given a detailed description (LV, 65-67) of his cross section of this feature. Our second aim was to cut a short trench westward toward Mound A-5
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 9) Layered clayey sands with targe burned areas Figure 31.—Profile of Mound A-3. Section of east wall of 1955 north-south trench. EXCAVATIONS IN MOUND A-3 Mound A-3 was the small feature south of the Ceremonial Court in which the sandstone cist (Feature A-3-a) was discovered in 1943. We carried out some minor tests here with two purposes in mind. The first was to attempt to coordinate our terminology with that of Wedel, who has given a detailed description (LV, 65-67) of his cross section of this feature. Our second aim was to cut a short trench westward toward Mound A-5 to add, if possible, to the limited infor- mation we had gathered in our investigations in the latter feature. The check of the stratigraphy in general corroborated WedeFs infor- mation, although we did make some adjustments of terminology to make his and ours conform. In addition, on the basis of our work in the other features of Complex A, we were able to make some elabora- tions of his distinctions of layers. We will describe first the results of our excavations in our north-south trench, which paralleled Wedel's trench through the mound for a distance of 30 feet but extended 3 feet. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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