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Artifacts found in the house were sparcely scattered. The paucity of debris on the floor would suggest that there was some effort at house keeping. Four antler tine tips were found next to a post mold located third from the west on the southwest line of molds. All had the larger ends where they attached to the greater portion of the antler severely burned and then broken off. It is net a particu1ar1y common manner of removing tines from the antler. This writer has seen them more commonly broken off or, as is much more common, deeply incised around the circumfrance and then broken off. Perhaps through burning the green antler was made brittle and the tines broken off more easily. A deer ulna awl came from the floor about six inches east of the hearth rim.
This site has been sub-soiled and chizel plow tip scars were noted running through the house floor and the infant burial at a depth of about W: inches. Herein lies the demise of most of the archaeological sites in the delta. Unless we can save a few from the chizel plow or excavate them prior to their being greviously lost to'this agricultural practice ajl will be gone.
-Two.burials in another area of the site were excavated and recorded r(Fig. 2). Both appear to oe adult males. Burial One was inr a isehni f 1 exed, supine position with its head oriented to the west. Burial Two was in a semiflexed, prone position, with its head oriented to the east. Both burials seem to belong to the Mississippian component of the site.
The recovered materials are currently being further study at the Laboratory of Anthropology, State University.
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Floor and post mold plan of house at the LeFlore site.