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E-22: TOTOYOGUYAOTONTO 
This site is on the left bank of the Kassikaityu River, about 500 
meters above its junction with the Essequibo (fig. 79). The bank 
here rises steeply to 10 meters above the January water level to form 
a summit 200 meters long by 150 meters inward. Secondary growth 
occupies this area, with the majority of the trees under 15 cm. in di- 
ameter. Tests showed that sherds were limited to a small area 10 
meters in diameter near the center of the former clearing. The soil 
was light-brown sand, sterile for the first 8cm. Sherds were scattered 
in level 8-16 cm., below which the soil became more compact and 
sterile. 
E-—23; KASSIKAITYU MOUTH 
On the north side of the junction of the Kassikaityu with the Es- 
sequibo (fig. 79), the land forms a high point 12 meters above the 
January water level. The summit shows evidence of a former clearing 
some 200 meters long by 100 meters wide. A slight depression about 
75 meters wide separates this site from E-22. Sherds were found in 
an area 10 meters in diameter toward the south end of the site, op- 
posite an outcrop of large rocks in the Kassikaityu. A 1- by 1-meter 
test showed the soil to be sterile, light-brown sand for the first 18 cm., 
becoming slightly darker in the sherd zone between 18 and 31 cm., 
with sterile sandy soil below. 
E-24: FAHNATALUTO 
Half a kilometer below the mouth of the Kassikaityu, on the left 
bank of the Essequibo (fig. 79), several very large rocks stretch half 
way across the channel and form a little bay 20 meters wide (the 
river here is 75 meters wide). Sherds that had been washed out of 
the bank lay on the sandy beach where the rocks met the shore. The 
land rises in a series of shelves to an elevation of 7 meters above the 
January water level, reaching the summit about 100 meters inward 
from the shore. Secondary growth was more advanced than at many 
of the other sites, with many trees 30 to 50 cm. in diameter and a few 
larger. Undergrowth was minimal. The former clearing was about 
250 meters in diameter, with its front edge at the 6-meter contour. 
Sherds came from an area 30 by 60 meters at the front of the highest 
summit. 
Cut 1, 1 by 1 meters, was excavated in 8-cm. levels toward the east- 
ern edge of the habitation area. Under the thin root mat, the soil 
was dark-gray loam. Sherds were present from the first level. No 
changes were visible until 32 cm., where the soil became light-gray 
sand. At 46cm. this changed to very compact, light yellowish-orange, 
sandy clay with orange streaks of precipitated iron. 
