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Type I
“Mound with a single burial built above surface”
35 mounds with single burial
7 mounds without human burial (6 with artifacts/ccramics)
14 mounds without artifacts/ccramics
20% mounds without burials
40% mounds without artifacts/ccramics
Type II
“Mound with a single burial cut into bedrock”
4 mounds excavated
100% mounds with human burials and artifacts/ceramics
Type III
“Mound with central burial connected with subsidiary burials”
38 mounds excavated
0 mounds with subsidiary burials (multiple burial)
23 mounds with single burials
15 mounds with no burials (12 with artifacts/ceramics)
39.5% mounds with no burials
4 mounds without artifacts/ceramics
10.5% mounds without artifacts/ceramics
Type IV
“Mound provided with shaft entrance”
It should be noted that this type of mound-burial is similar to that of
Type III; both contain stone semicircles built against the ringwall to incor
porate subsidiary burials.
17 mounds excavated
9 mounds with single burial
3 mounds with multiple burials
1 mound without burials
4 mounds cited only as human bones present, unable to distinguish
whether single or multiple burials.
1 mound lacked artifacts/ceramics, also human burial
.58% mounds without burials and artifacts/ceramics
17.6% mounds with multiple burials
Type V
“Burial Complex”
This “Burial Complex” consisted of an incompletely excavated area of
32 five-by-five meter squares consisting of more than 1,000 interconnected
burials. The possibility of other burial complexes of this type, in adjacent
and unexcavated areas, is stated as being distinctly possible (Ibrahim
1982).
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