Burial Ceremonialism at Sugar Run Mound (36WA359), a Hopewellian Squawkie Hill Phase Site, Warren County, Pennsylvania

Sugar Run Mound (36WA359) is a Squawkie Hill phase Hopewellian burial mound located in Warren County, Pennsylvania. There were three separate periods of mound burial construction at this site. The earliest burial phase included production of two effigies of a bird and possible celt/ax made from large stone cobbles, on two sides of a central cobble cist. Multiple cremations were interred under the bird effigy of Mound Unit 1. Mound Unit 2 consisted of two stone box tombs each containing an extended burial with some secondary burials placed around them. Mound Unit 3 had an extended burial laid on the existing ground surface. The different modes of burial and associated grave goods indicate the function of Sugar Run Mound changed through time. This paper explores those changes.