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ANTIQUITIES OF GUATEMALA 



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region, which he considers quite ancient settlements. In Campur he 

 excavated a small cave which is about 10 meters deep and whose floor 

 slopes inward. Four meters from the entrance a wall, built of stone 

 without mortar, runs obliquely through the cavern. Doctor Sapper 

 found behind this wall some large stones, without recognizable signifi- 

 cance or connection, which may perhaps have been hearthstones or 



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Fig. 16. Pottery vessels in the form of animal heads. Guatemala. 



seats. There were, further, remains of pots, most of thorn without 

 decoration. One fragment had a hole drilled under the rim, doul)tless 

 for a cord by which the vessel was carried. A fragment of the rim of 

 a thick vessel showed linear decorations scratched on it. Hut iiear by 

 were also found two feet, belonging to vessels, in the form of animal 

 heads of the types copied in a and J, tigure 16, apparently of the same 



