Ohio archæological and historical quarterly (1887)
Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society · Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe · leaf 139
cations. ■cents, and one child. Another form of burial occasionally metwith in the family groups was where the interment was madein one of the abandoned storehouses. A photograph of this modeof burial is shown in Fig. 79. The head is bent backward andthe legs are flexed so that the feet are very… … Burial in one of the refuse pits. emergency burials, thedeath occurring during the winter whenthe ground was frozen, making it a very difficult task to excavatethe frozen earth with the primitive digging implements. How-ever, the pit burials may have only been temporary burials, andthe re-interment…
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