The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . re openedthat contained nothing. Their depth below the surface wasonly six and eight inches respectively. At site 2, on anancient anden facing the south, and within an area boundednorth and west by old stone walls, fifty-eight graves werefound; and two more close by. Of these fifty-eight graves,forty-seven clustered on a space covering not quite thirty-seven hundred square feet, near to a small ruined structureon the edge of the anden. Of these sixty cysts, five were ofchildren. The cysts had been partly opened and disturbed;hence, while it is l
The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . re openedthat contained nothing. Their depth below the surface wasonly six and eight inches respectively. At site 2, on anancient anden facing the south, and within an area boundednorth and west by old stone walls, fifty-eight graves werefound; and two more close by. Of these fifty-eight graves,forty-seven clustered on a space covering not quite thirty-seven hundred square feet, near to a small ruined structureon the edge of the anden. Of these sixty cysts, five were ofchildren. The cysts had been partly opened and disturbed;hence, while it is likely that they all originally had stonecovers, not all of these were in place, and a number of thecysts were empty or partly rifled. The depth of the coversbelow the surface varied between nine and fifteen stone-work on the cysts is mostly like that of the others,but there are in this group some well-laid and fairlyrectangular casings. Here the yield was better, consisting ^ 05 w o > ^ X s X o fA •/2 i^ d < * r^ r:^ p - ^i _. ANCIENT RUINS ON THE ISLAND OF TITICACA 181 of skulls (the skeletons had disintegrated), earthenwareand other objects. In some we found only ceramics, inothers a skeleton, with from one to seven pieces of pottery,all of the ruder kind. From one cyst, a skull, a stone-mortar, and a pot were taken out at a depth of twentyinches. In a cyst ten inches beneath the surface, and twenty-four inches deep, a vessel of clay in the shape of a duck laythree feet under the surface. There was rarely a gravewithout something in it. The best constructed one, arectangle twenty-four by seventeen inches, its wall laid incourses, was empty to a depth of forty inches, then only afew. bones and the bottom of a vessel, charred, came to polygonal cyst, twenty-four by twenty-one inches, insidemeasures, twelve inches below the ground and twenty-fourinches deep, yielded a painted pitcher, a painted bowl, thebottom of a larger bowl filled with charcoal and
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