Primitive man in Ohio / by Warren K. Moorehead.

  • Warren K. Moorehead
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Primitive man in Ohio / by Warren K. Moorehead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hour to dry thoroughly, and then another coat of varnish was put on. When this had dried they were removed from their resting-place, packed in cotton, in baskets, and then carried to Cincinnati by hand, so there would be no danger of breakage. This amount of trouble may seem uncalled for, but as there is only a comparatively small number of Mound Builders’ skulls in the United States, one cannot be too careful with specimens in good condition. On the east side of the mound, lying underneath the burnt clay, with head toward the east, was the skeleton, tolerably well preserved, of an individual somewhat below the average size; this is repre- sented by h in the figure. A small piece of galena, which showed some attempts at working, lay near the skull. There were some animal bones scattered through- out the mound, mostly those of the deer. About three and a half feet above the bottom of the mound, a thin layer of bark and charcoal (i) extended beyond these deposits on every side. This was all of importance that the structure con- tained ; we spent a full week upon the excavation, and left nothing undone. Mound Number Seven.—The position of this mound was on a tract of low ground near a small creek in Brown County about one mile distant from Number Two, and owned by the same gentleman. Its height was three feet, while its breadth was about forty feet. It was composed in a large part of limestone slabs averaging in weight forty or fifty
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