. Bulletin. Ethnology. MEGGERS AND EVANS] ARCHEOLOGY AT MOUTH OF AMAZON 223 forest strip, and is covered with grass and a few scattered small trees. Lake Arapapa, a small, shallow body of water, is about 1 km. to the west. The site consists of 2 large and 4 small mounds distributed over an area of 150 by 150 meters (fig. 75). All are approximately a meter higher than the general terrain and readily distinguishable by the taller and greener grass growing on them, as well as by their elevation (pi. 31, a). That the height of the mounds is due in part to artificial construction is indicated by th
. Bulletin. Ethnology. MEGGERS AND EVANS] ARCHEOLOGY AT MOUTH OF AMAZON 223 forest strip, and is covered with grass and a few scattered small trees. Lake Arapapa, a small, shallow body of water, is about 1 km. to the west. The site consists of 2 large and 4 small mounds distributed over an area of 150 by 150 meters (fig. 75). All are approximately a meter higher than the general terrain and readily distinguishable by the taller and greener grass growing on them, as well as by their elevation (pi. 31, a). That the height of the mounds is due in part to artificial construction is indicated by the thinness of the refuse layer and by a depression between the two largest that may have been left by exca- vation of dirt for the adjacent mounds. The two major mounds are parallel and run north-south. The first, on the east, measures 100 by 20 meters, and the second, just west of it, is slightly shorter. The remaining 4 mounds, 2 to the west and 2 to the south, vary from 25 to 35 meters in length and 5 to 8 meters in width. All but one have the longest axis oriented north-south. A circular depression at the north- east corner of Mound 1 may be the remnant of a well. No sherds could be seen on the surface, and tests made at various spots on three of the mounds showed the refuse layer to be 10 cm. or less in thickness and the sherds to be sparse and in a poor state of preservation in the clay matrix. Below the refuse layer, the clay .â .-LIMIT;.OF 0 10 20 30 M Figure 75.âPlan of J-4âMucaj6, a habitation site of the Formiga 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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