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CONTENTS.   IX

PART II. THE ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN ANALI AND OLD MERV. HUBERT SCHMIDT.

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CHAPTER VI. THE ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS AT ANAU    83-I20

Excavations at North Kurgan    83-104

Preliminary examination    83

Method and arrangement of work    84-86

The work and finds at the separate localities on North Kurgan    87

Terrace I    87

Walls and rooms; pivotal door-stones; bake-ovens; fireplaces    88

Skeletons of children buried in "contracted position" and burial gifts; lapis

lazuli    89
Early recognition of stratigraphic distinctions in pottery, varieties of gray and

red monochrome above (group x) and coarse and fine painted (group y) below 89-91

Terraces IV and V    91

Stratigraphie succession in Terraces IV and V    93-95

Determined by the stratigraphic distribution of skeletons and pottery    93-94

Painted pottery in the upper strata (group z)    94

Polychrome pottery in upper strata (group v)    95

Determination of a change from an older to a younger different culture at 25 feet above the plain, the older one characterized by pottery group y, the

younger by groups x, z, y    95

Terrace II    95-98

Copper in the older culture    97

Terrace III    98

Terrace VI    99

Terrace VII    loo

West Digging    too

North Digging: Culture-strata down to 24.5 feet below level of plain: skeleton in "contracted position" at - II feet; painted pottery of group y extends to bottom strata, but in depth associated with a distinct painted variety

(group in)    tot

South Shaft    tot

West Shaft: shows wide extent of strata of the older culture with pottery of group y   tot

Komorof's Trench: East and West Galleries; East and West Pits    102-103
Definite proof that the people of the older culture also buried children within

their dwellings    103

Other finds; character of culture; relative chronology    103-104

   The excavations at the South Kurgan 104-120

General summary and method    104-106

Two successive cultures evident    to5

Excavations and finds at different localities    106

Upper Digging    1o6

Five feet of upper culture-strata    to6

Wheel-made pottery of upper culture (group I) and iron knife    io6

Superior hand-made pottery (group 2) in mixed strata below upper culture    1o8

Below 37 feet 7 inches above level of plain only wheel-made pottery of red, gray and whitish-green varieties (groups 3-5) characterizes the older culture of

South Kurgan    1o8

Copper dagger    108

Razor and dagger of copper    109

Terrace A belongs in mixed talus débris    1 to

Copper three-edged arrow-point and iron sickle    1 to

Outer Digging. The two cultures and the intermediate "mixed" zone represented    i to

   Terrace B 1t2-118

Children buried in houses    1 t 2

Three-faced seal showing man, lion, and griffin; pivotal door-stones    112

"Clay chest"   •    113,114

   Stratigraphie discussion I15,116