This site is a cemetery of more than 100 niche and pit 
graves at the locality of Chiu Chiu, and appears to have 
been utilized ca. A.D. 800. All the burials were found 
to have been looted, with broken artifacts and organic 
remains, including maize cobs, strewn on the ground 
surface. 
Fifty intact or almost intact cobs and six fragments 
were collected from the surface scatter. Of the intact 
cobs, twenty-nine are red and twenty-one white. Many 
are quite tripsacoid in having indurated tissues of the 
rachis and glumes. These cobs are quite similar to those 
of the lot from site RAnL 290 except that they are 
smaller. In shape they are tapered and rounded at the 
butts. The shanks are intermediate in thickness; the 
lower glumes are stiff, and the rachillae long. Measure- 
ments of five red and five white cobs show no significant 
differences in the two types except perhaps in kernel row 
numbers. The averages for lengths, diameters, and kernel 
row numbers are 7.6 cm., 1.7 ¢m., and 18.0 for the red 
cobs, and 7.5 cm., 1.6 em., and 15.6 for the white. 
RAnL 1 
This is a village site located at the present dispersed 
settlement of Lasana beside the Loa River, and may 
have been occupied from ca. A.D. 800 until Spanish 
arrival in the early 16th century. Maize cobs were col- 
lected from scattered surface refuse, and comprise eleven 
intact or almost intact specimens and six fragments. 
Three of the specimens resemble the slender cobs in 
the lot from site 837-1, and three resemble the thicker 
cobs from that same site. Five cobs are quite tripsacoid, 
with their tissues highly indurated either naturally or 
hardened through some kind of impregnation. One of 
the cobs has several single spikelets, a characteristic of 
corn’s relatives teosinte and T7ipsacum; both of the lat- 
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