. Bulletin. Ethnology. Evans and Meggers] ARCHEOLOGY IN BRITISH GUIANA 73. Figure 23.—Sketch map of N-15: Hotokwai, a habitation site of the Mabaruma Phase. sand below the refuse layer. A 1- by 1-meter test excavation near the creek produced only 40 sherds and a few fire-burnt stones. N-16: AKAWABI CHEEK N-16 has two occupations, a shell midden belonging to the Alaka Phase and a later site belonging to the Mabaruma Phase. Tlie details of the site location are given under the Alaka Phase (pp. 33-34) and will not be repeated here (figs. 4,22). Whereas the Alaka Phase midden occupies a very small
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Evans and Meggers] ARCHEOLOGY IN BRITISH GUIANA 73. Figure 23.—Sketch map of N-15: Hotokwai, a habitation site of the Mabaruma Phase. sand below the refuse layer. A 1- by 1-meter test excavation near the creek produced only 40 sherds and a few fire-burnt stones. N-16: AKAWABI CHEEK N-16 has two occupations, a shell midden belonging to the Alaka Phase and a later site belonging to the Mabaruma Phase. Tlie details of the site location are given under the Alaka Phase (pp. 33-34) and will not be repeated here (figs. 4,22). Whereas the Alaka Phase midden occupies a very small area near the bank of Akawabi Creek, the Mabaruma Phase refuse extends 75 meters inward from the bank and 100 meters north-south along the edge (fig. 24). Behind the site, some 300 meters away, Akawabi Hill rises 4 to 5 metei's above the site elevation. Its slopes are covered with clumj)S of bamboo. The major portion of the site area has suffered from recent disturbance, especially leveling of the surface. Conse- quently, little reliable data could be obtained about the depth of the refuse deposit. Sherds occur on the surface, on the eroded slopes leading to the swamp and the creek, and in the path that had been cut through the rise separating the school building from the creek. In the walls of this path, Mabaruma Phase sherds were found in. 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 Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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