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location of a house at the water’s edge, and a few other posts were 
scattered farther back. Uruci, cotton, and cannalike bushes were still 
growing in the clearing. In the forest outside the grass area, stumps 
of large trees provided evidence of former clearing now in secondary 
growth. This site had been reported to us as a Wai Wai village 
occupied for 3 to 4 years and abandoned in 1948, and the condition 
of the clearing seemed to verify this claim. However, testing 
produced no sherds in the major portion of the area and it was only 
toward the rear of the clearing, far from the remnants of the recent 
house, that any concentration was found. On analysis, these sherds 
proved to be Taruma Phase rather than Wai Wai pottery. The 
Taruma Phase occupation was brief, judging from the fact that a 
1- by 1-meter test produced only 35 sherds, all in the upper 2.5 cm. 
of the soil. Below that was sterile, hard, compact, tan clay. 
E-12: MANARI TULU 
On the right bank of the Essequibo, 1 hour and 20 minutes’ paddling 
upstream from E-11 (fig. 79), a large area of secondary forest oc- 
cupies an elevation about 100 meters in diameter and 5 meters above 
the December water level. Undergrowth was unusually dense and 
most of the vegetation consisted of small trees and spiny palm. Oc- 
casional trees measured 60 cm. in diameter. Extensive testing pro- 
duced sherds only in two places, 8 meters apart, near the center of the 
former clearing and one-third of the distance inward from the front 
edge, on the highest part of the site. One of these spots produced 
only three sherds. <A 1- by 1-meter cut in the other was sterile for the 
upper 10cm. Sherds were encountered in the brownish-gray soil from 
10 to 24 cm. with most of them in the southwest corner of the excava- 
tion. Small iron concretions became abundant at the bottom of level 
16 to 24 cm., below which the deposit was sterile. The sparsity of the 
sherds suggests a small village of short duration or possibly a tem- 
porary shelter in a field. 
E-13: TARI TARI TULU 
This site, a few minutes’ paddling upstream from E-12 (fig. 79), 
occupies a hilltop set back from the river’s edge, so that its existence is 
not apparent from the water. The maximum elevation of 17 meters is 
attained at a distance of 85 meters from the bank, so that the incline is 
not steep in spite of the height of the hill (fig. 83). The summit, 150 
meters long by 50 meters wide, is covered with a dense growth of vines, 
small brush, and spiny palm intermixed with fallen moss-covered 
tree trunks. Standing trees were 30 cm. or less in diameter. The sur- 
face of the ground was covered with rotting leaves, and the sherds in 
the surface collection came mainly from soil uncovered by an uprooted 
