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Urn burial

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There is considerable evidence of "pottery hunting" by amateurs in the mounds of Oldtown, and it is said that several highly decorated food bowls adorned with zoic figures have been taken from the rooms. It appears that the ancient inhabitants here, as elsewhere, practised house burial and that they deposited their dead in the contracted position, placing bowls over the crania.

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Archeology of the lower Mimbres valley, New Mexico
By Jesse Walter Fewkes
Published in 1914
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