. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ARCHEOLOGTCAL IISrVESTIGATIOlSrS EST MISSOURI 179. \ ; Figure -Distribution of mounds containing stone-walled burial chambers. For identification of numbers see table 9. the Missouri River; the latter are to be found apparently on both sides. The vaults comi^rise groups of from two or three to fifteen or more, and in several instances these clusters also include earth mounds. Where the two types occur together, however, as at Line Creek and on Pearl Branch, the vaults are more numerous, and earth mounds may be thought of as atypical. Th
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ARCHEOLOGTCAL IISrVESTIGATIOlSrS EST MISSOURI 179. \ ; Figure -Distribution of mounds containing stone-walled burial chambers. For identification of numbers see table 9. the Missouri River; the latter are to be found apparently on both sides. The vaults comi^rise groups of from two or three to fifteen or more, and in several instances these clusters also include earth mounds. Where the two types occur together, however, as at Line Creek and on Pearl Branch, the vaults are more numerous, and earth mounds may be thought of as atypical. The vaults are usually well built, with inner faces vertical or nearly so, and corners nicely squared. Since they seem to have been erected on previously cleared areas, the care- fully laid courses of stone forming the inner face could be backed up with other heavy slabs and blocks which resulted in a wall as much as 5 or 6 feet thick at the base.^^* Highly characteristic are entrance "3 The stability of these structures is well illustrated in the case of Brenner No. 2 at the mouth of Line Creek. There is no certain record as to when this was first explored, but It was reopened by Powke in 1907 and not again filled in. When I first visited it in 1937 the north wall, except for the tumbled uppermost layers of rock and a trifling disturbance from tree roots, was practically unchanged from the view reproduced by Fowke (1910, pi. 13),. 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 United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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