24. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
Pampa de Paijan (Engel, 1957, pl. XX XIV, lower), or the caves of 
the Lagoa Santa region of Minas Gerais, Brazil (Walter, 1958, figs. 
9, 16, 22, 88). However, when the total complex of features in each 
of these areas is considered, differences loom larger than similarities 
and no direct relationships can be postulated with the possible excep- 
tion of the specimens from eastern Venezuela. 
In view of the wandering life associated with a hunting economy 
and of the unexcelled opportunities for concealment of artifact re- 
mains provided by the forested terrain, it is doubtful that our knowl- 
edge of these hunting cultures in British Guiana will ever be much 
more complete than it is at present. Discouraging as the situation 
may seem by contrast with North America or the stratified cave sites 
of southern South America, it is surprisingly good by contrast with 
the rest of Tropical Forest South America where evidence of early 
hunting groups is completely negative. The British Guiana finds 
suggest that more widespread appreciation of their significance might 
bring similar artifacts to light in other parts of the South American 
lowlands. 
