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Michigan Mound Builders
All the tibiae noticed by me exhibited the compression characterizing platycuemic men. In dwelling on this circumstance, in connection with my previous discoveries in the same direction, I make the remark, "I cannot but believe, from what I have seen, that future investigation will extend the area in which this type of bone is predominent to the entire region of the great lakes, if not of the great west; or, in other words, that at least our northern Mound-builders be found to have possessed this trait in the degree and to the extent denoted;" which prediction recent discoveries in Wisconsin and Iowa would seem in a fair way of fulfilling.
On the west bank of the Black river, a tributary of the St. Clair, is a burial-mound, which contributed some unusual features. A road having been cut through the easterly slope of this mound, the consequent excavation revealed a large number of human bones, pottery, stone implements and other relics.
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