Explorations and field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in .. . absence of semisubterranean construction, sweat baths, andrubble. The food habits of these oldest settlers also differ from thoseof the later people, even those of the same derivation (the inter-mediates ). They buried their dead individually within, but probablyalso outside, the site. As times go on, from the old to the intermediate, the physicalcharacteristics of the people remain the same, but their habits andculture change. The old lamj) art fades away gradually ; chipped stoneimplements are more and more replaced by the po
Explorations and field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in .. . absence of semisubterranean construction, sweat baths, andrubble. The food habits of these oldest settlers also differ from thoseof the later people, even those of the same derivation (the inter-mediates ). They buried their dead individually within, but probablyalso outside, the site. As times go on, from the old to the intermediate, the physicalcharacteristics of the people remain the same, but their habits andculture change. The old lamj) art fades away gradually ; chipped stoneimplements are more and more replaced by the polished variety; thestone ax and adze appear, though still rarely; a new form of barbedpoint—a long slender cylindrical shaft with one, two, or even threerows of small barbs—appears, as do poniards and other bone tools;ivory objects, handsomely carved, up to ivory portraits, occur nowand then, and so do various decorative and fetishistic articles ; indi-vidual burials in the site are still practiced but are scarce and greatly SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I934 49. Fig. 41.—Our shack on the site and the beginnings of the outdoor museum.
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