Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . nassociated with human remains. Orange Mound.—Orange mound is a somewhat crescent-shaped mass of shellsand sand in the centre of which several bodies were Pottery of the por-ous variety, stamped and plain, occurs on the surface and in the superficial loam toa foot in depth. From one foot in depth to a depth of about five feet pottery of adistinct type, the midden ware, occurs imbedded in Ampullaria shells and associatedwith beds of ashes. The remaining 10 feet of deposits were without pottery. Thismidden ware is rudely made
Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . nassociated with human remains. Orange Mound.—Orange mound is a somewhat crescent-shaped mass of shellsand sand in the centre of which several bodies were Pottery of the por-ous variety, stamped and plain, occurs on the surface and in the superficial loam toa foot in depth. From one foot in depth to a depth of about five feet pottery of adistinct type, the midden ware, occurs imbedded in Ampullaria shells and associatedwith beds of ashes. The remaining 10 feet of deposits were without pottery. Thismidden ware is rudely made and coarse in texture. It was tempered with vegetablefiber which has now entirely disappeared leaving the mass quite porous. The ves-sels are of medium size, in shape deep bowls or shallow pots, the walls thick, reach-ing in cases nearly I of an inch, and the surfaces roughly rubbed down and deco-rated very generally with archaic patterns of rudely incised lines. In cases thedecoration extends over the upper margin of the squarish lip. Typical specimens. Figs. 21 and 22. Fiber tempered ware with archaic decorations,of the sherds are presented in Figs. 21 and 22. This variety of ware was found inTick Island and other mounds and always in the shell deposits, and is thought torepresent the earliest pottery making period. The lower layers of the deposit arewithout potteiy. 1 American Naturalist, July, 1898. CERTAIN SAND MOUNDS OF THE ST. JOHNS RIVER, FLORIDA. By Clarence B. Moore. part II. Preface. Since the preparation of Part I of this report, seven additional months otcontinuous work, with a large body of assistants, in a flat-bottomed boat withsteam motive power, have been devoted to the sand mounds of the St. Johns. Theriver has now been many times carefully covered by us from Lake Washington tothe sea—practically from its source to its outlet—with a boat of so light a draftthat almost no contiguous lagoon or tributary creek has been left unvisited, andthe employment of
Size: 1491px × 1676px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1810, bookidjournalofacademy2101acad
