Ohio archæological and historical quarterly (1887)
Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society · Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe · leaf 493
place for and a monument to the departed dead. From themodern, or civilized point of view, we are inclined to wonder-ment that the usual method of burial in graves dug beneath thesurface is not generally practiced, especially since we learn thatthe Feurt inhabitants knew and used this method to a… … A Double Burial; Feurt Village Site. also provides for them a fitting and a lasting monument. Themound burial, apparently so different from the usual graveburial, but really very similar, consists in reversing the operationof excavating a receptacle beneath the surface level, by heapingthe covering…
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