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but no definite Bold Animalistic sherds occurred. Crudely painted 

 and occasionally incised sherds of domestic ware were fairly abundant 

 in all levels. The middle layer yielded one conventionalized Mayoid 

 sherd similar to the above, and a considerable number of red and black 

 or orange sherds with designs suggesting the Bold Geometric. Defin- 

 itive Bold Animalistic designs were lacking. The bottom level was 

 similar but lacked both definitive Mayoid or Bold Animalistic designs, 

 although several badly eroded polychrome sherds may have been of 

 these types. To sum up, the El Eden polychrome site proved negative 

 so far as any obvious stratification of ceramic types was concerned. 

 The absence of definite Bold Animalistic type sherds is interesting 

 but hardly significant, owing to the small sherd sample. 



At excavation B, Los Naranjos (near site i, map, fig. 20), a simi- 

 lar stratigraphic excavation was made. Here, again, only three 30- 

 centimeter levels of polychrome sherds were obtained, the depth of 

 the upper Yojoa Polychrome deposit being similar to excavation A 

 (fig. 32). The top level contained rim fragments of small bowls, 

 many of which had thickened lips. These sherds have conventional 

 and rather massive red and black designs on orange and, in one case, 

 white, backgrounds. Three basal fragments, one flat, one dimpled, 

 and one annular, occurred. The latter is a dark brown, almost black, 

 overfired piece. The middle level contained sherds with similar, con- 

 ventionalized Mayoid designs, and a few with well-executed and iso- 

 lated serpent motifs. A few sherds from this level are of the Bold 

 Animalistic type. Basal fragments include two flat and two dimpled 

 bottoms. The lowest sherd level included a bowl fragment with an 

 elaborate open-winged bat (like pi. 3, b; Gordon, 1898). Several 

 rim sherds from vertical-walled Mayoid vases have rows of typical 

 Ulua conventionalized faces, and a fragment of a tripod plate has 

 a similar design motif. In addition, there are a number of dull orange 

 sherds with more conventionalized black and red geometric designs. 

 From this lowest level comes a splendid Mayoid vase (pi. 12, a) 

 encountered in a broken condition at a depth of 1.25 meters in the 

 original excavation B test pit. This vase, with a definite rim, marked 

 entasis, and a flat bottom, has an orange slip with complex anthropo- 

 morphic and glyph designs in brownish yellow, purplish red, and 

 black. Thus, although the evidence is slender, there is some sugges- 

 tion that the Lake Yojoa Polychrome wares exhibit the same trend 

 from the more realistic to the conventional as was true of Ulua 

 Polychrome pottery decoration. The occurrence at La Ceiba of both 

 an extremely conventionalized Bold Animalistic vase (pi. 13, a) 

 at a depth of only 15 centimeters, and a splendid, realistic Mayoid 



