204 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 193 



WORKED BONE AND SHELL 



The only object in either of these categories recovered at He-1 is 

 a bone or antler harpoon point (pi. 19, a) associated in Find 24 with 

 Early Code Phase potter3^ This measures 8.5 cms. long by 1.5 cms. 

 maximum width by 0.6 cms. maximum thickness. The haft is 

 perforated. 



FIND INTERPRETATIONS AND SITE CHRONOLOGY 



Find 1-5 cache contained no polychrome vessels, but associated 

 a large strap-handled Red Daubed bowl with plain red slip plates, 

 the large purple slipped open bowl, and a fragment of a Smoked ware, 

 Platanillo variety dish. There were no objects of stone or bone with 

 these vessels. 



Find 8 cache combined a small, unclassified buff open bowl with 

 a Giron, Interior Banded bowl. 



Find Unit 12 associates a Platanillo Smoked ware dish with two 

 examples of the Patterned and Modeled Red Line ware. One of the 

 latter, Find 12-a, is an effigy collared jar with lobed shoulders and 

 painted red decoration; the other, Find 12-6, is a collared jar with 

 painted red decoration. The latter two vessels were found very close 

 together, the lobed vessel inverted, but the Smoked Ware dish was 

 recovered somewhat lower. No articles of bone or stone were present. 



Find 14 Grave Unit. Since this is one of the larger grave units 

 excavated at the site and is typical of a number of others there, it 

 seems appropriate to describe the pit in some detail. The pit, located 

 in Trench 1 between the 14 and 16 meter points, was about 2 meters 

 deep by 2 meters wide and was composed of two chambers; an upper 

 chamber or shaft which widened near the surface and a lower circular 

 chamber. In this grave, as in other similar ones at the site (Cache 

 Unit 16-17, Grave Unit 18, Grave Unit 19), the lower chamber or 

 grave proper was filled with horizontally bedded brown sand and clay, 

 presumably waterborne. The pit was lined with a hard clay. In 

 addition to the pottery vessels mentioned below, fragments of human 

 bone, a human skull, and lumps of red clay and white plastered clay 

 were recovered from the grave pit. A large stone metate with three 

 conical legs and covered with a 2-cm.-thick layer of white ash was 

 found in association with the other grave fm-nishings. One poly- 

 chrome vessel, a ring base plate executed in the Late Period Code 

 style, was present in addition to two Red Slip chalice-shaped vessels, 

 a Red Daubed plate and three Red Daubed wide-mouthed collared 

 jars (one with the paired teardrop motif), a large buff open bowl, and 

 two Smoked ware vessels; one Aromo variety plate and a Sangre 

 variety bowl. This association places the distinctive chalice shape 



