. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. 496 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM filled with charcoal and ashes. Below the ash pit proper was a deposit of sand intermixed with bits of charcoal, calcined animal bones and lumps of intruding soil. At 48" a layer of flat stones was discovered. These were removed and 6" below, the top of a broken pot was uncovered. The surrounding earth was removed and the crumbling skeleton of a female disclosed. Orientation: head. Fig. 9 Diagram of grave XXII. A = Top soil and disturbed layer; B — Fire pit; C «= Disturbed sand over- lying grave soil;
. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. 496 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM filled with charcoal and ashes. Below the ash pit proper was a deposit of sand intermixed with bits of charcoal, calcined animal bones and lumps of intruding soil. At 48" a layer of flat stones was discovered. These were removed and 6" below, the top of a broken pot was uncovered. The surrounding earth was removed and the crumbling skeleton of a female disclosed. Orientation: head. Fig. 9 Diagram of grave XXII. A = Top soil and disturbed layer; B — Fire pit; C «= Disturbed sand over- lying grave soil; D = Undisturbed sand; E <= Overlying cover of shale slabs; F = Decayed organic matter; G = Clay east, face south, left side, flexed position. The pottery vessel was at the occiput [see text fig. 9]. Grave XXIII, pit 48, was in trench 4 at 99' in the middle of the trench. It was 5' by 8' in dimensions and 30" deep. As the trench was one in the village section, that the pit was a grave was not suspected until a workman thrust his spade through the skull and the pottery vessel. The skeleton lay in a stratum of ashes, charcoal and sand discolored by decayed matter. Orientation: head east, face south, left side, flexed position. The broken pot which lay at the occiput was restored. The bones of the skeleton were well preserved by the ashes and seemed to yet contain a saponaceous substance, perhaps produced by the mixture of the lye from the ashes and the natural oleaginous matter in the 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 New York State Museum. Albany : University of the State of New York
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