. Bulletin. Ethnology. Evans and Meggers] ARCHEOLOGY IN BRITISH GUIANA 197. Figure 82.—Sketch map of E-9: Kalunye, a habitation site of the Taruma Phase. E-9 : KALUNYE This site is half an hour's paddling upstream from the Wai Wai village of Mawika, on the left bank of the Essequibo River (fig. 79). The hill rises gradually so that the summit is 40 meters from the edge of the bank, but falls off more steeply to the rear. Sherds are distrib- uted over an area 60 by 25 meters, corresponding approximately to the extent of the elevation above the 5-meter contour (fig. 82). This hill had been clear
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Evans and Meggers] ARCHEOLOGY IN BRITISH GUIANA 197. Figure 82.—Sketch map of E-9: Kalunye, a habitation site of the Taruma Phase. E-9 : KALUNYE This site is half an hour's paddling upstream from the Wai Wai village of Mawika, on the left bank of the Essequibo River (fig. 79). The hill rises gradually so that the summit is 40 meters from the edge of the bank, but falls off more steeply to the rear. Sherds are distrib- uted over an area 60 by 25 meters, corresponding approximately to the extent of the elevation above the 5-meter contour (fig. 82). This hill had been cleared by the Wai Wai chief for a garden some years previously, and had since grown up with dense small brush and small trees 4 to 15 cm. in diameter. A few trees, apparently faster growing species, were 30 cm. in diameter. Cut 1, 1 by 1 meter, was dug in 8-cm. levels toward the southeast edge of the site, near the beginning of the slope. The soil was black loam, containing numerous small iron concretions and sherds in a good state of preservation. This condition continued uniform through 4 levels. Between 28 and 32 cm. iron concretions became very abundant but sherds were present to 34 cm. Below this the gravel was compact and sterile to a depth of 50 cm., where the cut was abandoned. A large core of felsite, the kind of rock used for the manufacture of manioc grater teeth, came from level 16-24 cm. It was trianguloid, 9 cm. long, 8 cm. wide at the base and cm. 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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