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west slope of the hill quite close to the road to Parita. The upper 

 layer of humus extended downward to as much as 50 cms., averaging 

 25 cms. in depth, and it was from this layer and the upper portions 

 of the clay just below it that about 300 sherds were recovered. Below 

 the humus layer lay a zone of red-brown clay which was most pro- 

 nounced at the north end of the trench where it extended to a meter 

 below the surface (at the south end it extended down to 60 cms.). 

 Below this was undistiu-bed yellow-white soil. Find 18 was recovered 

 from the trench. 



Pit 1, a 2X2 meters test pit, was excavated on the flat top of a hill 

 to the southeast of the Trench 1 hill. The hill, which was roughly 

 rectanguloid in shape and had a number of stones on the surface, 

 apparently appeared promising. The pit, however, going through a 

 very thin humus layer, yielded only a few sherds and was closed at a 

 depth of 50 cms. in gray, semidisintegrated granite. 



CERAMIC REMAINS 



As was the case with He-1, practically all of the ceramic types and 

 varieties have been fully described elsewhere in this report or in the 

 literature so that my comments here will be restricted to significant 

 additions, absences, or variations which occurred at He-2. 



The most striking point is the relative absence of either of the 

 great polychrome groups near the area, the Code or the Azuero. 

 Although the total number of sherds analyzed is low, only about 600, 

 it is still surprising that only 1 Code polychrome sherd was recovered 

 and only 10 Azuero group sherds were found, none of them indisput- 

 able. No complete polychrome vessels of either group were recovered, 

 although both Smoked and Red ware spouted jars duplicating those 

 at Sitio Conte were present. 



COCLE GROUP 



Cocl6 Polychrome 



One sherd, a "drooping lip" sherd from a shallow bowl, too frag- 

 mentary to determine chronology from design, but presumably Early 

 Period on the basis of the lip shape. 



CocLfi Red Ware 



Code Red ware was represented at He-2 by 11 sherds and 2 vessels; 

 a spouted jar (Find 4-c) similar in shape to the one illustrated by 

 Lothrop (Lothrop, 1942, fig. 272, a,), but without incision or fluting, 

 and an open bowl. The junction of the neck and shoulder of the jar 

 was sharply angled, but there was no flattening of the shoulder at the 

 junction point. The lip treatment is similar to that of the Smoked 



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