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complete skeletons. Find 24, a notched bone harpoon point, may be 

 from the fill of Grave 18. 



Find 19 Grave Unit is also domed or bell shaped, but was not lined 

 with red clay. Fragments of human bone, including a cranium and 

 an adult femur, were recovered. The pottery of the unit consists of 

 a Late Period Code Polychrome plate, a miniature Red ware pedestal 

 plate or pot stand, and two Delgado Red vessels, namely: a class "c" 

 collared jar and a loop-handled collarless jar containing several pieces 

 of charcoal. This grouping tends to ally two characteristic Azuero 

 Red ware shapes with Late Polychrome styles at Sitio Conte. 



Find 20 Unit. It is difficult to determine from the field notes 

 whether the two vessels of Find 20 actually were associated. They 

 consist of a PinUla Black-line-on-red collared jar (Find 20-a) and a 

 shallow open red-slipped bowl with a ring base and black ticking 

 on the lip. 



Find 21 consists of a cache of pottery vessels, several of which were 

 found within a large collared jar (Find 21-/) from Trench 3 at a 

 depth of about 40 cms. No polychrome vessels were present. Com- 

 plete specimens consist of three Red Daubed vessels (one medium- 

 sized strap-handled collared jar, one large strap-handled collared jar, 

 and one incensario), three Smoked ware vessels (one Platanillo variety 

 bowl, one small open ring-based bowl with a flat lip, and one Venado 

 Beach Incised open bowl) and two additional vessels; a buff plate or 

 shallow bowl, and a flat plate with a red slip over a buff slip. 



Find 22-23 Unit was a cache of only pottery vessels located in 

 Trench 3 at a depth of approximately 1-1.2 meters. Associations 

 consist of two Red line Patterned and Modeled variety jars, a Red 

 Line, Pito variety collared jar, an undecorated wide-mouthed 

 collared jar (unfinished Red Daubed?), a Smoked ware, Platanillo 

 variety open bowl, and a Code Polychrome plate with a "bird- 

 which-looks-back" design, probably of Early Period vintage. Thus, 

 here, the Red Line, Pito variety and Red Line Patterned and Modeled 

 appear contemporary with the Early Period at Sitio Conte. 



Find Unit 24, a multiple grave and the largest grave excavated at 

 the site in terms of number of skeletons and vessels, included parts of 

 four skeletons. Burial 1 contained the flexed skeleton of a young 

 adult with a harpoon point, two flint points, some green-stained bone 

 awls, a copper chisel, seven stone celts, and a shark's tooth. Most of 

 these artifacts were found near the chest of the individual. Grouped 

 around the bones were pottery vessels, Finds 24-1 through 24-12, in- 

 cluding a Code Polychrome flaring bowl Avith scroll design which, on 

 the basis of design layout and drooping lip, would be placed in the 

 Early Period at Sitio Conte; a Red Daubed incensario; and a number 

 of vessels which in other graves or caches at He-1 have Late Period 



