CONTENTS 



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Introduction i 



Environmental background 3 



Historical and ethnological background 7 



Explorations 20 



Utila Island 20 



Black Rock Basin 20 



Site I, urn and skull burials 20 



Site 2 28 



Brandon Hill Cave 30 



Byron Cave 32 



Big Bight Cave ■ 33 



" Eighty Acre " and other sites 34 



Roatan Island 36 



Port Royal 36 



Jonesville Bight 42 



Site I 43 



Ceramics 44 



Other artifacts 48 



Site 2 50 



French Harbor 5° 



The Dixon site 5 1 



Ceramics 53 



Metal 60 



Ground stone 62 



Chipped stone 69 



Shell 71 



Vicinity of Coxen Hole 7^ 



Helena Island 74 



Caves I and 2 75 



Ceramics 76 



Ground stone 82 



Chipped stone 82 



Shell and wood 82 



Barburata Island 84 



Indian Hill 86 



Site I 86 



Ceramics 87 



Metal 106 



Ground stone 107 



Chipped stone no 



Shell 1 10 



Bone Ill 



Human, animal, and other remains in 



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