Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States
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Cyrus Thomas’s Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States takes burial mounds as its subject, with a section on the Wisconsin district listed in its contents. The discussion of Arkansas describes low circular house-site mounds, usually one to three feet high, containing a layer of often-burned clay and ashes in nearly every instance. The account suggests that burying the dead beneath a dwelling, burning the building and covering the remains with earth was a very common custom in that section.
The proposed division into districts is explicitly presented as a working hypothesis rather than a settled conclusion capable of withstanding future investigations. The examination of a bed of burnt bones reports that the burning made it impossible to determine whether the remains were human or animal.
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- Cyrus Thomas
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- 166
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- English
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