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THE Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, has issued as part of the thirteenth volume of its Proceedings another of its great monographs, finely illustrated with coloured and process plates, on a group of mounds in Arkansas and Mississippi, prepared by Mr. C. B. Moore, who has made a speciality of this line of investigation. These mounds fall into three groups:—those of the Lower Arkansas, the Yazoo and Lower Sunflower Rivers, and those at Blum. A number of interments, many of which are of the “bunched” or contracted type, has been examined, and a large collection of objects, such as pottery, bone pins, shell and copper ornaments, has been made. Some bones showing marks of specific disease have been unearthed, but there is some doubt whether these belong to the pre-Columbian period, and the sites may have been used for interments after Europeans reached the country.
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Prehistoric Pottery in America . Nature 79, 265 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/079265a0
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