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| Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.1 |
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| Plan of Excavations at North Kurgan. Anau. |
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EXCAVATIONS AND FINDS AT THE NORTH KURGAN. 85
and that a skeleton unearthed on March 31 in terrace III was also, in all probability, buried in contracted position. Since similar skeletons appeared in terrace II and in deeper layers (cf. special report of Warner), it was impossible to consider these as later burials, and the find in terrace I left no question that the skeleton graves belonged to the dwellings represented in the horizontal strata.
Fig. 22.—Plan of Excavations at North Kurgan, Anau.
Nevertheless, to test still further the correctness of these conclusions, the southern half of the hill was attacked on April 1 in the same manner as the northern one. Here a trench 14 to 16 feet wide was dug, extending in a north-south direction; this trench being cut down in four terraces—Iv, V, VI, VII-
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