Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Other Relevant Sources:
Purdom Mound Group
Mound 1-2, Burial 1/90
Burial
None
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Feature Description:
- On floor of mound
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- skull fragments, postcranial remains, sections of long bones
- adult, under 30 years old [Sciulli]
- skull blackened from smoke
2. Ohio Flint Ridge chert bladelet (1)
- possibly a drill
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Other Relevant Sources:
Purdom Mound Group
Mound 1-2, Burial 3/90
Burial
None
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Feature Description:
- Located well above the floor level, but was not intrusive
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- fragmentary
- adult male [Sciulli]
- head apparently north [per map]
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Other Relevant Sources:
Purdom Mound Group
Mound 1-2, Burial 4/90
Burial
None
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Feature Description:
- White stain under bones of skeleton suggests possible mortuary cloth from
shoulders to mid-thigh
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- extended and fully articulated
- female, 47 +/- 5 years old [Sciulli]
- estimated height is 149 cm
- head to west [per map]
2. Local chert flake (1)
- six centimeters south of right humerus
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Purdom Mound Group
Mound 1-2, Feature 1/91
Miscellaneous
Not Applicable
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Feature Description:
- Found over a feature of “varve-like” puddled clay
- seven pairs of alternating dark and light bands formed a rectangular pit with
rounded corners
- Two meters long by one meter wide
- Flotation produced plant remains: chenopodium seeds, burnt hickory and ash, and
hickory nut shell
- Carbon dated to 1970 +/- 70 years BP
Contents:
1. Juvenile elk burial (1)
- possibly newborn
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Other Relevant Sources:
Purdom Mound Group
Mound 1-2, Burial 2/91
Burial
None
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Feature Description:
- Pit measuring 263 by 188 centimeters, with greatest depth 35 to 40 centimeters
below mound floor
- Fire had been built along left side of body after positioning in the grave
- charcoal was carbon dated 1850 +/- 80 years BP
- Limestone cobbles were clustered at the feet of the skeleton
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- skeleton had been “rearticulated”, based on positioning of some bones in
anatomically impossible positions
- female, 60-70 years [Sciulli]
- head to northeast [per map]
2. Local chert flakes (4)
- left side of burial
- one was seven centimeters southeast of individual’s left hand
3. Chert flakes (2)
- Harrison County Indiana style (hornstone)
- just behind and to west of individual’s skull
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Purdom Mound Group
Mound 1-2, Burial A
Burial
None
Heilman and Mahoney 1996:292
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- child
- head to north [per map]
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Purdom Mound Group
Mound 1-2, Burial B
Burial
None
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Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- adult
- torso only
2. McGraw cordmarked pottery (1+ vessels)
- utilitarian
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Other Relevant Sources:
Purdom Mound Group
Mound 1-2, Burial C
Burial
Burials C-1 & C-2
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Feature Description:
- Double cremation
- In cremation pit
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (2)
- two of the following: 2 adults, 6 month old child, or 1 year old child [Sciulli]
- the other two make up Burial D
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Other Relevant Sources:
Purdom Mound Group
Mound 1-2, Burial D
Burial
Burials D-1 & D-2
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Dayton Museum of Natural History Catalog & Collections
Feature Description:
- Double cremation
- In cremation pit
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (2)
- two of the following: 2 adults, 6 month old child, or 1 year old child [Sciulli]
- the other two make up Burial C
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Purdom Mound Group
Mound 1-2, Burial E
Burial
None
Heilman and Mahoney 1996:292
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- head crushed
- extended adult
- head to east [per map]
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Purdom Mound Group
Mound 1-2, Burial F
Burial
None
Heilman and Mahoney 1996:292
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- baby
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Other Relevant Sources:
Purdom Mound Group
Mound 1-2, Burial I
Burial
None
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Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- decapitated
- female, age 27 – 30 [Robbins]
- headless body oriented to east
2. Trophy mandible (1)
- adult, sex unknown [Sciulli]
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Other Relevant Sources:
Relevant Figures & Plates:
Purdom Mound Group
Mound 1-2, Burial K
Burial
None
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Figure 17:2
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- female, age 40 - 50 years [Sciulli]
- nearly complete
2. Duck effigy pottery vessel (1) – (figure 17:2)
- in pieces
- near right side of body [map]
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Purdom Mound Group
Mound 1-2, Burial L
Burial
None
Heilman and Mahoney 1996:292
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- adult inhumation
- head to south
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Other Relevant Sources:
Purdom Mound Group
Mound 1-2, Burial M
Burial
None
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Feature Description:
- Mica sheets overlie cremations, which overlie knives and sandstone gorget
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Mica sheets (9+)
- two are cut
- covers remainder of deposit
3. Grey flint knives (2+)
- under cremation
4. Sandstone gorget/concretion (1)
- rectangular
- drilled
- 10.5 cm by 5.0 cm
- under cremation
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Purdom Mound Group
Mound 1-2, Burial N
Burial
None
Heilman and Mahoney 1996:292
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- mutilated
- head toward the east [per map]
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Purdom Mound Group
Mound 3/4, Burial 1
Burial
None
Heilman and Mahoney 1996:296
Feature Description: No description given
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- legs missing
2. Flint knives (3)
- one is apparently broken, as it is described as a “half”
- to the right of skull
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Other Relevant Sources:
Purdom Mound Group
Mound 3/4, Burial 2
Burial
None
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Feature Description:
- Ring of charcoal around head, and large quantity to right side of head. Small
deposits of charcoal at feet, charcoal on floor
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- fully extended
- adult
2. Shell (1)
- between the skull and pile of charcoal on right side of skull
- type is unclear
3. Flint knife (1)
- between Burial 1 and Burial 2 but closer to the legs of Burial 2
4. Animal bone (1)
- possibly squirrel
- beside hips on right side
- [could be intrusive?]
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Other Relevant Sources:
Purdom Mound Group
Mound 3/4, Burial 3
Burial
None
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Feature Description:
- small quantity of charcoal near burial
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- extended
- body faces “opposite direction” from Burials 1 and 2
- adult
2. Animal jaw (1)
- type not given
- just below left hand
3. Animal bone (1)
- muskrat
4. Bone ring (1)
- just below left hand