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III Tchefuncte Period Burials
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 June 2018
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It appears that in the original excavations of the Little Woods site Czajkowski found skeletons in the middens at different points. The following is taken from his article in the Louisiana Conservation Review:
Most of the burials on the shell ridge were solitary and no funeral furniture or artifacts were found with them, with two exceptions: (1) On March 20th, two skeletons were found in a semi-flexed, east-west position. The following day, five more skeletons were uncovered, making a total of seven, all lying in the same position, parallel to each other about four feet apart, at a depth of about five feet …(2) On June 1st at a depth of six feet, a single skull impaled on a tree stump was found. Underneath the skull was a single fragment of decorated pottery.
Burial Ground: Seven skeletons found on March 20th, 950 feet northwest from the location. Adults, in fairly good condition; all skulls crushed except one…. Six in semi-flexed position on their backs … (the illustration to which Czajkowski here refers shows a fully flexed skeleton). All lying parallel in an east-west position with their heads west. The seventh at full length on its face. They were lying at a depth of about four feet from the surface and overlain with a shell bed from two to twelve inches in thickness. The distance between the skeletons was from three to four feet (Czajkowski, 1934, pp. 14-15).
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