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Ficure 110.—Sketch map of R-5 and R-6, habitation sites of the Rupununi Phase. 
addition to a large random surface sample of stone and pottery, a 
2- by 1-meter square test was made, from which 93 sherds were ob- 
tained. The site produced an unusually large number of stone arti- 
facts, and a few items of European origin (see table L, pp. 315-317). 
R-7: LAKE AMUKU 
A few kilometers north of R-6 is Lake Amuku, a small, swampy, 
shallow, elongated body of water. High, thick grass occupies the 
area immediately surrounding the lake, with large patches of forest 
nearby. A narrow ridge running north-south a short distance from 
the west margin of the water produeed scattered sherds (fig. 109). 
The general area of their distribution was 200 by 500 meters, with a 
slight concentration toward the southwest part of the ridge. Collect- 
ing of a surface sherd sample was impeded by the tallness of the 
grass cover, but tests showed that there was no depth to the deposit. 
—8: QUATATA, VILLAGE 1 
This site occupied the narrowest place in a strip of savanna between 
two large patches of forest (fig. 109). In both directions, the savanna 
opens out into a rolling, tree-sprinkled terrain. A swampy area in 
the forest to the southeast of the site may have provided the most 
