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98   THE ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN ANAU.

culture, and the deeper-lying pottery fragments of group x would have to be explained as belonging with the burial. This, however, I consider improbable; for the number of the younger pottery fragments is too small, only one or two having been found daily in these lower layers. We shall be much more correct in assuming that the four bodies were buried by the same people who used the painted pithoi. In any case, these pithoi are an infallible proof that at the level of + 25 feet we are already in the strata of the older culture. Henceforth we may assign to the older culture all layers in which similar pithoi are found in situ.

Terrace III (see figs. 32 and 33).—Terrace III, excavation of which began on March 31, lies with its upper edges lower than terrace ix, much lower than terrace I (see plan, fig. 22). Below the surface we soon came, at the south wall, upon pottery fragments, upright and close together, resembling the incrustation on the earth walls in the quadrangle of terrace I. It was not possible, however, to determine either the thickness or the trend of the earth walls or the character of the potsherds,

which were light-colored

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and very poorly preserved. Near by, in the middle of

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discovered at + 27 feet and

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It was probably contracted in Hocker position, but this

is not certain, because the

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workmen.

Lower down, at + feet, in the southwest corner

of the digging, there were

found in situ the bottoms of two painted pithoi, their positions warranting the conclusion that one of them had become useless and the other had been placed upon its remains (see fig. 34.). They are, therefore, as in terrace II, evidences of settlements of the older culture. After removing these, there came to light, in situ, at the still deeper level of + 16 feet, in about the same part of the terrace, a coarse domestic vessel with a diameter at top of II.5 inches, and a height of 24 inches. It is of a different technique from that of the painted pithoi, and as the exterior is heavily incrusted with soot and the earth in the interior and around the external surface is much mixed with charcoal, the vessel would appear to be in situ and to have been employed as a kettle for cooking (see fig. 35). Here also, then, is evidence of a succession of superimposed settlements belonging to the older culture.

The skeleton uncovered above, however, must belong to the younger culture. It can not have been an inserted burial of later times, as its position immediately under the surface of the hill might at first sight indicate, because the finds accom-

Fig. 34.—Pithos in Terrace III.