Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . .In addition to the usual sprinkling of charcoal throughout the sand, there were atleast four fireplaces immediately over deposits of human remains, and these remainsgave no evidence of contact with the flames, save in one instance where a tibiaslanted upward through the sand into the fireplace. THE ST. JOHNS RIVER, FLORIDA. 193 A number of human bones lay G feet from the surface, near the center of thebase, with two crania in contact. All were unaffected by heat, though the remainsof a fire, 4 feet in length, were plainly apparent i
Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . .In addition to the usual sprinkling of charcoal throughout the sand, there were atleast four fireplaces immediately over deposits of human remains, and these remainsgave no evidence of contact with the flames, save in one instance where a tibiaslanted upward through the sand into the fireplace. THE ST. JOHNS RIVER, FLORIDA. 193 A number of human bones lay G feet from the surface, near the center of thebase, with two crania in contact. All were unaffected by heat, though the remainsof a fire, 4 feet in length, were plainly apparent in the sand about one foot the extinct embers lay considerable portions of a human tibia, a fragment oflower jaw, and other human remains thoroughly charred. In various portions of the mound human remains similarly treated were metwith. Four and one-half feet down, in the western slope, was a pocket of fragmentsof human bones, fire. With them were small pieces of calcined bone,some of undetermined identity, others of lower
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