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Grave 24 contained four skeletons; three adult and one adolescent or 

 female adult. The remaining graves were probably single, since 

 only a few bone fragments were found. Grave furniture included 

 pottery, worked bone and stone (Finds 18-24, and 47), copper objects 

 (Find 24), bird bones (Find 24), three-legged metates (Finds 14, 49), 

 and a shark's tooth (Find 24). 



The graves and caches include types present in both the Early and 

 Late Periods at Sitio Conte, while the sherd lots include Aristide group 

 types of the Santa Maria Phase (both Escotd and Girdn, but especially 

 the latter), of the Azuero group and 31 sherds of the El Tigre Complex. 

 Although the Macaracas type, presumably coeval with Late Code, is 

 the dominant one, the probably later Parita type is represented by a 

 few (33) sherds. The period of occupation would appear to be con- 

 temporary with both Early and Late Code periods at Sitio Conte 

 with indication of both an earher and later occupation. The few 

 El Tigre sherds present suggest that during early Colonial times, the 

 site may have been used occasionally as a camping spot by salt boihng 

 parties traveling to and from the coast. 



