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for Sitio Conte (Lothrop, 1937, fig. 53, b) except that the example from 

 He-2 has a somewhat thicker cross section. 



FIND INTERPRETATIONS AND SITE CHRONOLOGY 



He-2 appears to be a site which bridges the later types of the Santa 

 Maria Phase and the Early Period at Sitio Conte. No Late Period 

 vessels were recovered either in sherd or complete form, and the only 

 evidences of Azuero group pottery are the 10 rather vague sherds 

 mentioned in the section on typology. On the other hand, Gir6n type 

 vessels and sherds were represented as were Early Period Code vessels 

 and Red Line and Smoked ware varieties which had Early Period 

 associations at He-1 and Sitio Conte. Pinilla Black-line-on-red vessels 

 were absent, but most other varieties which were either definitely or 

 probably of Early Period vintage at the Pinilla site were represented. 



Turning to those finds which either present significant associations 

 or conditions of excavation. Find 1 associates a large fragment of a 

 Gir6n type, Banded Lip variety bowl with a Red Line, Red Daubed 

 variety strap-handled jar, an association which concurs with the 

 findings at He-1. Since the field notes make no mention of the bowl 

 fragment, it is possible that the Gir6n fragment was not deposited with 

 the jar but was accidentally included from the surrounding fill. Its 

 inclusion, however, does no violence to the relative chronology at the 

 present time. 



Find 4-6 was a more complicated unit. Find 4, a cache of pottery 

 and some badly decayed human bone, was located shghtly west of the 

 center of Trench 1 at a depth of 0.85-1.25 meters. Associated with the 

 find were a Pito variety jar, a Platanillo variety bowl, two red-sHpped 

 collared jars, and a Code Red ware spouted jar. The latter shape 

 occurred more commonly in the Late than in the Early Period at Sitio 

 Conte (Lothrop, 1942, pp. 138-139), but in view of the Pito and Plata- 

 nillo associations and the absence of Late period vessels here, I am 

 inclined to place this example in the Early Period. 



Find 5, a group of six vessels with associated decayed human bone, 

 apparently adult, was located in the same longitudinal position as 

 Find 4 but at a depth of 1.08-1.20 meters and somewhat separate in 

 that it lay against and in the east profile. Immediately above the 

 unit were 10-15 tightly packed boulders, roughly 15 cms. in diameter, 

 and the grave pit for the unit showed up clearly as clay and midden fill 

 in the east profile. Nothing comparable to this was noted in the west 

 profile for Find 4, but field observations suggested that the two units 

 may be one. The vessels of the Find 5 unit all may be appropriately 

 placed in the Early rather than the Late Period consisting as they do 

 of a Girdn type Interior Banded variety bowl, a Red Daubed wide- 

 mouthed jar, two Red Line Patterned and Modeled variety vessels. 



