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ADDITIONAL FIELD CLEARINGS 
Six of the places identified by our Indian guides as former slash- 
and-burn clearings produced no sherds in spite of extensive testing. 
However, the vegetation was comparable to that on sherd-producing 
sites, and the soil typically contained flecks of charcoal in the first few 
centimeters below the surface, making it seem probable that these are 
additional slash-and-burn field clearings exploited by nearby villages. 
They are indicated on the map (fig. 79) by the symbol (F). Locations 
and approximate areas are given on table G. 
TABLE G.—Additional Taruma Phase slash-and-burn field clearings 
Name Location on Essequibo River Approximate size 
Wanshiwayun.--__--_-_- Left bank, below E-28_-._..._..------- 100 meters in diameter. 
Amal Buluk - 522525555 Right bank, below E-21 - ..----------- Large, no dimensions recorded. 
Weniem6 Mututdé_-_-_--- Right bank, below E-17-_-_-_----------- 100 meters in diameter. 
Wanhakukus ..-<-2-=. Left bank, below E-6_...--.....------ 50X70 meters. 
Cinbity all eae se Right bank, below E-18- ------------- 200150 meters. 
INoinames=2.2<2=2.-=.. Right bank, below E-20-------------- No dimensions recorded. 
PETROGLYPHS 
No petroglyphs were detected on any of the rock outcrops in the 
surveyed section of the Essequibo River, although suitable places were 
frequent particularly below the mouth of the Kassikaityu. Several 
were observed, however, during 2 days’ travel up the Kassikaityu. 
When questioned about others in the region, the Indian guide asserted 
that there were none on the Essequibo but that some are to be found on 
the Kuyuwini, the next tributary to the north. 
The first group was half a day’s paddling up the Kassikaityu, on a 
rock jutting out from the left bank. The rapid here is called “Crab 
Falls” after one of the petroglyphs. The figures were on the nearly 
vertical face of a boulder just about the January water level, which 
means they are inundated during the rainy season. The marks were 
about 2 cm. wide and 2 mm. deep, eroded and almost invisible except 
when the sun cast a slight shadow. This group consisted of a crab 
(fig. 86, a), a stylized, rectanguloid face (fig. 86, d) in close proximity, 
and a bird (fig. 86, ¢) 2.5 meters to the left of the crab. Additional 
faint lines between the bird and the crab could not be identified. A 
short distance upstream was another rock in midstream bearing a 
petroglyph, and a little farther on near the right bank were two more 
figures, only one of which showed clearly. This was a face with up- 
standing hair (fig. 86, d). 
On the right bank of the Kassikaityu, half an hour below the junc- 
tion with the trail leading to the savanna, was a rock bearing another 
face with stylized, upstanding hair, along with two parallel lines and 
