. Bulletin. Ethnology. 148 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 189 •• • •. 0 2 * e 8 10 '\ - « © Posf hole Fire pif © ® Cache pit Ash pit v/mim Loess Refuse Native soil ® Hearth Figure 26.—Feature 22, Hosterman site. Near the west end of the exploratory trench we located and com- pletely uncovered the remains of a circular structure, Feature 22 (fig. 26). Once the house pit was outlined, all of the fill was passed through screens down to within foot of the floor. This portion was carefully removed by trowels; the material was screened and placed in separate containers. Even with all this c
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 148 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 189 •• • •. 0 2 * e 8 10 '\ - « © Posf hole Fire pif © ® Cache pit Ash pit v/mim Loess Refuse Native soil ® Hearth Figure 26.—Feature 22, Hosterman site. Near the west end of the exploratory trench we located and com- pletely uncovered the remains of a circular structure, Feature 22 (fig. 26). Once the house pit was outlined, all of the fill was passed through screens down to within foot of the floor. This portion was carefully removed by trowels; the material was screened and placed in separate containers. Even with all this care we recovered very few artifacts from the zone. After the floor had been cleared, the various features, such as post- holes, cache pits, and firepits, were cleaned of their contents. Any- thing found within any of these features was kept separate from that found on the floor. Later the surrounding area was explored in order to locate the entranceway or any other feature that might have been associated with the structure. We not only failed to find any evidence of a passageway, but we found nothing that we could positively asso- ciate with the house structure. Cache pits within the house floor ranged from small shallow depres- sions to fairly large bell-shaped pits of a size sufficient for an average- sized man to squeeze into easily. Most pits contained loose soil; some had an occasional artifact and the larger bell-shaped pit was com- pletely filled with disarticulated bones and very little soil. FORTIFICATION DITCH The fortification ditch began to the northwest of the site and pro- ceeded eastward along the north side, gently curving to the south. Along the east side it continued around to the south to a place where. 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.
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