Ladd] PARITA AND SANTA MARIA ARCHEOLOGY, PANAMA 149 



schist from Trench 7, Level 2. The remainder came from unstratified 

 circumstances in Mound III. 



Two examples of the ovoid category (pi. 18, e) were recovered, both 

 with pottery associations. The first, associated in Find 370 with Red- 

 buff collarless jars, was polished overall and measured 13X4.8X1.8 

 cms. The second, associated in Find 384 with Macaracas pottery, 

 measured 6.5X2.5X1.5 cms. The poll showed signs of battering and 

 chipping which may have been the result of use after manufacture. 

 As noted below, and a common feature of the He-1 site, stones which 

 had apparently been prepared originally as celts often showed signs 

 of subsequent battering on both poll and cutting surfaces. 



Hammers. — A few stones, presumably originally celts, were found 

 which showed signs of battering or pecking on both ends and, oc- 

 casionally, along the edges. Body surfaces were often polished. One 

 Mound III example (pi. 18,/) with battered ends exhibited signs of 

 pecking on the beveled edges and had two very light grooves running 

 diagonally across both faces and around the edges. Another, appar- 

 ently a well-smoothed river pebble roughly 10 cms. long, was flattened 

 and pecked at both ends. 



Points. — One red jasper point or drill 5 cms. long by 1 cm. wide was 

 recovered from Level 7 of Trench 10. Roughly chipped with triangu- 

 lar cross section (pi. 18, i), it resembles those illustrated by Lothrop for 

 Veraguas (Lothrop, 1950, fig. 25, c-e). 



Scrapers and chisels. — A chert chip which may have been utilized 

 as a scraper (pi. 18, h) and a fragment of a stone chisel (pi. 18, g) with 

 a roughly diamond-shaped cross section were found without pottery 

 associations. 



Rubbing stones. — A number of smoothed elongated stones with 

 generally oval cross section and often made of a relatively soft stone 

 (pi. 18, j^n) were scattered through the refuse. Some showed definite 

 signs of rubbing or polishing on one or more surfaces. These ranged 

 from 4-10 cms. in length and 2-3 cms. in thickness. A few smoothed 

 round stones of granite about 5 cms. in diameter, which may have 

 been simply river worn, were recovered. 



Jewelry. — The only stone jewelry consisted of jade or jadeite beads 

 with straight circular shafts. Four of these recovered with Macaracas 

 pottery in Find 368 were tubular and ranged from 6-8 mm. in length, 

 from 3-3.8 mm. in diameter, and from 1.5-1.8 mm. in shaft diameter. 

 Four other jade beads with flat surfaces, trapezoidal shape, and lateral 

 perforations were recovered at the site. A typical bead measures 

 8X6X3 mm. and is 2 mm. thick. 



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