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CHAPTER VI. THE ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS AT ANAU.—Continued.

The excavations at the South Kurgan.—Continued.

Excavations and finds at different localities Terrace B.—Continued.

Dagger of copper    116

25 objects of copper in Terrace B    118

Beads; turquoise; vessels of marble and alabaster; human and animal figures

of clay    118

Terrace C    118-120

A hearth-construction    I19

8 objects of copper; beads of agate, turquoise, etc.; stone vessels    120

The Shafts    120

CHAPTER VII. RESULTS    I2I-173

Results in North Kurgan. Two successive civilizations    x21

Upper Culture II, above 25 feet above the plain; houses of air-dried bricks; bottomless "bake-oven" pots; burial of children in contracted position in houses; red and gray monochrome pottery (group x) ; painted pottery (groups z

and V)    121

Lower Culture I, below 25 feet above the plain; house walls observed down to 18 feet below surface of plain (fireplaces down to —28 feet—R. P.) ; walls, pithoi,

and skeleton graves at all levels    x21

Results in South Kurgan. It also had two great culture-epochs    122

The Younger Culture represented on the top and on low extension; characterized by pottery (groups I and 2), by iron implements (knife and sickle), and by

younger copper forms (three-edged arrow-point)    122

The Lower Culture III has its top between 38 and 4x feet above the plain. The people

   of this culture also buried children in a contracted position in their houses   x22

Stratigraphic analysis of upper 12 feet of this culture:

Their pottery belonged to groups 3 to 5   

Culture III a third copper epoch   

Origin and mode of growth of the two kurgans   

Objections met   

Analytical description of the finds from North and South Kurgans

Pottery of North Kurgan

Pottery from the middle strata, Culture I   

The smaller vessels of fine technique (group a)   

Large and small vessels of coarse technique (group b)   

Decoration of both groups a and b   

Pottery from the lower strata of Culture I   

Thin painted cups of the lower strata (group c)   

Pottery from the upper strata, Culture II   

Technique and forms   

Ornamentation   

The younger painted pottery of Culture II   

Pottery of South Kurgan   

Pottery from the middle strata, Culture III   

Pottery of light-colored clay   

Gray monochrome ware   

Red monochrome ware   

Coarse ware   

Ornamentation   

Incised ornament   

Painting   

Pottery from the lower strata of Culture III   

Pottery of light-colored clay   

Gray ware   

Painted vessels   

Incised ornamentation . .   

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I 26 x27-128 I29-132 130-132 132-137

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