Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ill. They were notably absent from Feature 7,suggesting a change in cultural emphasis or perhaps in local each house the firepit was located on the centerline just inside theinner end of the ramp. Superstructures of all three houses werenearly identical. Posts 2 or 3 feet apart were set at the base of thewall excavation and, except for the entrance, continued around theentire perimeter. Central posts were absent but were replaced byroof supports in two rows, each a short distance from
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ill. They were notably absent from Feature 7,suggesting a change in cultural emphasis or perhaps in local each house the firepit was located on the centerline just inside theinner end of the ramp. Superstructures of all three houses werenearly identical. Posts 2 or 3 feet apart were set at the base of thewall excavation and, except for the entrance, continued around theentire perimeter. Central posts were absent but were replaced byroof supports in two rows, each a short distance from the centerline. A large area between Features 2 and 4 was cleared to the old sur-face and two thick midden deposits were trenched. The defensivemoat was located and sectioned in six places, tracing it through Fea-ture 7 and around a bastioned corner. Uniformly the moat was 3 to 5feet deep with a maximum width of 10 feet. The accompanyingstockade was not discernible. Artifacts were abundant in the midden Secretarys Report, 1962 Plate i JiaiST^.?*>iir!» ,^«i;iii3fc«BII»ka5B!G!«»i-. 1. Suiiilihtmiau Ri\cr Jjahiu Surveys crew excavating two burial pits at the Old QuarryMound, Big Bend Reservoir, South Dakota. These pits contained bones of both infantsand adults.
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