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R-12: ANNAT 
A. rocky slope adjacent to the foothills of the Pakaraima Range 
(fig. 109), northeast of the present Macusi village of Annai, produced 
a few aboriginal sherds and others of European origin (see table L, 
pp. 315-317). The area they occupy is very small and its situation 
corresponds to that of existing scattered homesteads in the Annai area. 
No surface water is found in the immediate vicinity, but artificial 
waterholes dug in a low part of the savanna 250 to 500 meters away 
serve the present population and probably were used by the residents 
of R-12 also. The relative abundance of European objects and the 
location of the site in a relatively undesirable spot are in conformity 
with the seriation that places R-12 among the most recent sites in- 
vestigated on the Rupununi savanna (fig. 125). 
R-13: RBUPUNUNI LANDING 
The junction of the Annai River with the left bank of the Rupununi 
River forms a small peninsula bounded on 3 sides by water (fig. 109). 
Trees occupy the banks, but the land behind is relatively open savanna. 
Mud deposited on the ground indicated that this bank, although some 
7 meters above river level in November, floods during the rainy season. 
Nevertheless, sherds were scattered over an area approximately 7 by 
25 meters on the peninsula. The fact that unflooded places were typi- 
cal locations for Rupununi Phase villages, together with the sparsity 
of sherds, suggests that this may have been a dry-season camp for 
fishing in the Rupununi River. 
R-17: UPPER KARAKARA VILLAGE 
The Karakara River is one of a number of small streams that flows 
southwestward out of the Pakaraima Mountains into the Ireng River. 
R-17 is on the right bank of the Karakara (fig. 109), which in the dry 
season at this distance from its mouth should be more accurately 
termed a creek than 'a river. The site occupies a grassy knoll 2.0 to 
2.5 meters above the level of the water 30 meters away. Rolling foot- 
hills are visible to the west and north about 1 km. distant. Sherds 
were scattered on the rise over an area 100 by 30 meters in which 
there were three small areas of somewhat greater than average concen- 
tration. Each of these was about 10 meters in diameter and probably 
corresponds to the former position of a house. On the west end of 
the site area were several recent graves covered with rocks. Sherds 
were on the surface, but several tests failed to reveal anything at 
greater depth. 
R-19: LOWER KARAKARA VILLAGE 
A second habitation site is located 1.5 km. from the left bank of the 
Karakara River, some distance below R-17 (fig. 109). It occupies a 
hilltop 15 to 25 meters above the surrounding terrain. The slopes rise 
