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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Curator of the Museum of American Archaeology: In Connection With the University of Pennsylvania, Presented to the President and Council of the University Archaelogical Association, October, 1890 In the shell heap proper, no interments appear to have been made, and it was at a distance of more than a hundred yards from it that the burials occurred. Of these there is little to be recorded beyond the fact that one body had been buried in a sitting posture, and above the head, and resting directly upon it, was the carapace of a large turtle. All the other burials were at full length, and not, as is so commonly stated, with reference to the points of the compass. The one object had was that of placing the body out of sight. Careful examinations of exten sive burial places along our larger rivers, and upon the islands, however, show that greater ceremony was common at times of interment objects of value were usually placed with the dead, and the earth heaped up to form little mounds. Where flat stones were easily obtained they were often used to line the grave and even cover it but nothing so elaborate as the burial mounds and stone graves of the Mound-builder regions have as yet been discovered. If we may judge of their advance in culture from mortuary customs, the Indians of New Jersey were far more primitive than the tribes of the central and southwestern States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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