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down animal rib-bones and one ground stone knife ; levels C two small, 

 polisbed bone needles, two obsidian flake knife fragments and one 

 ground stone knife ; and levels D yielded, aside from ceramics, nothing 

 but one small stone celt. 



Soil conditions in the northern extension were practically identical 

 with those in the main portion of excavation i (compare fig. 6). 

 The occurrence of four burials in the northern extension has already 

 been noted. As in excavation i, the polychrome horizon in the north- 



cm. 



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Fig. 12. — Ulua Polychrome bowl, excavation 2, Santa Rita (farm 17). (Specimen 

 in National Museum of Honduras at Tegucigalpa.) 



ern extension corresponded with the dense clay stratum (level 7, 

 fig. 6) and was marked by a concentration of river boulders in the 

 upper levels. In the northern extension the polychrome horizon 

 (and burials) which were included in pottery levels A and B, termi- 

 nated abruptly just above the sand layer (level 8, fig. 6). The latter 

 was sterile and averaged 20 centimeters in thickness throughout this 

 area. As in excavation I (excepting the polychrome dump heap on 

 the southern border) the polychrome pottery horizon in excavation 2 

 terminated abruptly on the sterile sand stratum. However, under this 



