. Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . n the floor of the shelter and then covered over withashes from their camp fire and soil and sand from the creek bedto a depth of about sixteen inches. The layers of sand and ashesover the skeletons had never been disturbed, showing that thedebris on the floor of the shelter had purposely been placed thereto form a burial place for the dead. In one respect the occupantsof the shelter resemble the Fort Ancient culture in their mortuarycustoms in burying the dead in close proximity to the camp, andthis would not deter them from occupying the shelte
. Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . n the floor of the shelter and then covered over withashes from their camp fire and soil and sand from the creek bedto a depth of about sixteen inches. The layers of sand and ashesover the skeletons had never been disturbed, showing that thedebris on the floor of the shelter had purposely been placed thereto form a burial place for the dead. In one respect the occupantsof the shelter resemble the Fort Ancient culture in their mortuarycustoms in burying the dead in close proximity to the camp, andthis would not deter them from occupying the shelter even iftheir dead were buried upon the floor and covered with a fewinches of soil. This feature of the mortuary customs of the Fort Ancientculture was found at the Gartner Village1. My conclusions arethat the Buzzard rock shelter, like the Boone rock shelter andcamp site, was only a temporary camp site. The broken potterywas present, but only in small quantities, as only twenty-nine 1 Certain Mounds and Village Sites in Ohio, Vol. 1, Part (205) 206 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. pieces were found during the entire exploration in the shelter;the animal bones were few and the kinds usually employed in themanufacture of implements were unused for that purpose. Infact, no implement or ornament showing a stage of its manufac-ture was found, evidencing that the site was only occupied for ashort period at any time, but may have been used as a temporarystopping place covering a long period of years. ROCK SHELTER IN JACKSON TOWNSHIP. The large rock shelter in Jackson township, near Leo, wasexamined by the survey. This shelter is one of the most com-modious of the shelters visited in the county; so large that a mancould stand upright without inconvenience. It was free of largepieces of sandstone that frequently, in other shelters, cover thefloor, also perfectly accessible by way of the bed of the smallstream (now dry) with its source only a few hundred yards awayand ne
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