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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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certainly asold and doubtless in some cases of much greater antiquity, through associationwith shell and the consequent infiltration of lime salts, are in fairly good condition. Two feet below the surface was a skull associated with a few vertebrae butwith no other bones. Close by lay a bit of hematite with two fragments of pot-tery and two beads of shell. In addition were what seemed to be two brass orcopper buttons, spherical in shape and evidently of European origin, since one stillhad a metal loop apparently soldered on. Their use as earrings is possible. Onelay in actual contact with the skull and had imparted a greenish tinge to a part ofthe temporal bone. The calvaria was saved and was of the brachycephalic vari-ety found almost without exception in the sand mounds. One foot from the sur-face and three feet east of the skull just described, surrounded by sand deeplytinged with red iron ore, were two tibiae, two femurs and a pelvis. A formerinvestigator had dug through the ribs.
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X Lndi.tLa.tts StZn.it rnounoi. Maf> of f)t John s Rivzr, THE ST. JOHNS RIVER, FLORIDA. 11 Three feet from the surface and three feet distant from the other remains was askeleton in anatomical order. The body lay upon its back, the thighs flexed on theabdomen. The hands were folded upon the chest and on them lay a drinking cupwrought from Fulgur perversum by the removal of the inner whorls and thecolumella. Drinking cups of this character were still in use when the Frenchlanded in Florida. They are not common in the sand mounds of the river, andsave in one case have been found only superficially in the shell heaps.1 Throughthe bottom of this shell cup a hole had been purposely knocked. Vessels, whetherof shell or of clay, deposited with the dead in the river mounds, almost universallyshow perforation. Of this custum we shall have more to say when describing thelow sand mounds near Volusia. In various parts of the mound, especially on the summit plateau, burials werecomparatively nujournalofacademy2101acad

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