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Title: Antiquities of the southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Jones, Charles C. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ese interments—which were evi-dently secondary in their character—and arriving atthe bottom of the mound, a skull was obtained whichdiffered most essentially from those we have describedas belonging to a later inhumation. It was vastly olderthan those of the secondary interments, and had beenartificially distorted to such an extent that the cerebel-lum was quite obliterated, while the front portion ofthe skull had not only been flattened but irregularlycompressed, so as to cause an undue elevation and di-vergence to the left. For the purposes of comparison we have (in PlateIV.-A) figured two skulls, the first (1) being that ofa modern Indian buried upon the side of the moundonly a few feet below the surface; the other, the crani-um of the primitive man in whose honor the tumuluswas constructed. Of this latter skull we have both afront and side view (Figs. 2 and 3, Plate IV.-A). Among the relics found in the vicinity of this old,artificially-compressed skull, was a total absence of
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AM. PHOT0-HTH0GRAPH1CCO. NYA OSBORNESPROCESS. PEIMAEY AND SECONDAEY INTERMENTS, 161 European ornaments. Here we have an interestingdemonstration of the fact that these ancient tumuliwere, in turn, used by tribes who perhaps had noknowledge the one of the other. The flattened and dis-torted skull belongs to the mound-building people towhose industry the erection of these tumuli is to bereferred. It was in perpetuation and in honor ofsuch primal sepulture that this mound was heaped up.In the course of time these sepulchral and templestructures, abandoned of their owners, passed into thehands of other and later red races, who buried theirdead upon the superior surface and along the slopes ofthese ancient tumuli, having at the time, perchance, nopersonal acquaintance with, and frequently not even a *distinct tradition of, the peoples to whose exertions theseevidences of early constructive skill were attributable. In the absence of letters and of recorded memoriesmost easily does one wave

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