. Bulletin. Ethnology. 0 10 20 30%. INAJA PLAIN FiGUEE 141.—Seriation of Marajoara Phase cemetery sites based on relative frequency of Inajd, Plain and Camutins Plain (Appendix, table 41). been subjected has removed a gi-eater proportion of the material nearer the surface and what remains comes mostly from the lower levels. If this is the case, the two Pacoval collections should be interpreted as more comparable to stratigraphy than as representative surface samples in the usual sense. If this plain-ware seriation of cemetery sites is compared with the stratigraphic results from the habitation
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 0 10 20 30%. INAJA PLAIN FiGUEE 141.—Seriation of Marajoara Phase cemetery sites based on relative frequency of Inajd, Plain and Camutins Plain (Appendix, table 41). been subjected has removed a gi-eater proportion of the material nearer the surface and what remains comes mostly from the lower levels. If this is the case, the two Pacoval collections should be interpreted as more comparable to stratigraphy than as representative surface samples in the usual sense. If this plain-ware seriation of cemetery sites is compared with the stratigraphic results from the habitation mound of J-15, Mound 14, some conclusions can be drawn about the contemporaneity of Mara- joara Phase sites. The changes that occur stratigraphically (fig. 139) correspond to the part of the seriated sequence (fig. 142) commencing with Cuieiras and continuing beyond the last cemetery site, Furinho. The J-15, Mound 14, stratigraphic sequence is approximately the same as the one derived from J-15, Mound 1, and its surface collection seriates like that of the latter site about the middle of the stratigraphic sequence. If the surface collections used for the other cemetery sites can be assumed to summarize a similar span of time, then it can be concluded that J-15 was a functioning conmaunity during about half of the Marajoara Phase occupation of Maraj6 Island, specifically, the latter half. The J-15 mounds were constructed during the second half of the period represented by Pacoval and Fortaleza, and the two groups of sites were contemporaiy for a short time. When the seriated sequence is considered in geographical terms, it is evident that the earlier sites are east of Rio Ararl and the later ones west of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnol
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