Identifier: journalofacademy2101acad (find matches)
Title: Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Year: 1817 (1810s)
Authors: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: (Philadelphia : The Academy)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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we devoted nine daysof January, 1894, with a force of fourteen men to handle the spades and our usualcomplement of five to direct and oversee the work. The mound was completely demolished. Thursby Mound, it will be remembered, was situate on an arm of land betweenLake Beresford and the river. Extensive shell deposits on the eastern side of theriver where the mound lay, and the great shell bluff, mounds and ridges of HuntoonIsland immediately opposite, testify to a numerous Indian population in former times. The mound, as our previous work indicated, was largely composed of whitesand with thin local layers of shell of considerable extent and occasional pocketsof shell, sometimes from one to two feet in thickness. But three or four pocketsof sand, artificially colored red, were met with, thus calling to mind the mound atTick Island, which Thursby Mound greatly resembled in nearly every respect. HUMAN REMAINS. In the south, southeast, and southwest portions of the mound, beginning at the
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osz O O QZ O >■ CQCO a: XE- < QQ CO THE ST. JOHNS RIVER, FLORIDA. 161 margin of the base and continuing through the central portion, human remains wereconstantly met with on and in the shell base. In certain cases, determinationof the form of burial was impossible, owing to the ravages of decay and to theintermingled condition of the bones, but in the case of the greater number the formof burial was shown to be in anatomical order, though in various degrees of flexion.In the white sand, somewhat above the base, but at depths to indicate originalburial, bunched interments were met with. Superficial burials were all in ana-tomical order. Crania.—Though the bones in Thursby mound, owing to assimilation of limesalts from the shell, were in a better condition than those from the down rivermounds, but two crania were saved in a comparatively unbroken condition.(Academy of Natural Sciences Catalogue, Nos. 1781 and 1782.) Humeri.—Of 264 humeri from original buri

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