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the adjacent hillside so that dirt washes in during the rainy season. 
This situation would make the site usable only during the dry part of 
the year. In addition to sherds, fragments of deer bones were found 
in the fine, powdery soil. A small, nearly complete Kanuku Plain 
bowl was wedged back under the ceiling rock, and near it were a few 
white glass beads. 
Cave 3 is west of Cave 2 in a deep depression under a large rock, 
which forms both the roof and one side. The upper tip rests on a 
second large rock, which forms the vertical southeast wall. A third 
rock forms the southwest wall. The only entrance is at the northeast, 
where a steep slope leads down to the floor 5 meters below. An open- 
ing 1 by 4 meters in the south edge of the ceiling admits light. Ceil- 
ing height varies from 2.75 meters at the south corner to 1.15 meters 
at the north side. The floor is rendered uneven by the presence of 
rock slabs of all sizes spalled from the roof. The dirt between them 
was dry, loose, and contained large sherds, deer bones, and turtle 
shell fragments. An area of burnt dirt at the north edge may indicate 
a cooking fire. Because of its low floor level, this shelter, like Cave 
2, would not be usable in the rainy season. 
Cave 4 is on a level above the others, accessible through a passage 
west of the rock forming Cave 2 and also from behind the rock. Its 
rock-strewn floor is 8 to 4 meters above that of Cave 2, and its ceiling 
is formed by a capping rock 2 meters above the floor. Cracks between 
and behind the rocks contained many sherds as well as several nearly 
complete small bowls, four of which were Rupununi Plain and one 
Kanuku Plain. Other refuse included deer, tapir, fish, and turtle 
bones and the body of a glass rum bottle. Although its rock-strewn 
floor would seem to provide an uncomfortable living surface, this 
cave produced more sherds than any of the others. 
R-22: WIE-WIE-TAU CAVE 
Wie-wie-tau is a bald dome of granite near the eastern edge of the 
Rupununi savanna (pl. 55, a). Under a spur protruding from its 
northern flank is a large, low-ceilinged cave (pl. 55, b), whose entrance 
looks across a grassy inlet toward another spur 40 meters to the east. 
To the north, the inlet opens into savanna broken by patches of trees 
and outcrops of blackened granite. The cave itself is 30 meters wide 
across the mouth and 20 to 23 meters deep. Ceiling height decreases 
from 4 meters at the north side of the front to 2 meters at the south 
side, measuring only 1.5 meters in the rear. This is largely a result 
of the sloping floor rather than curvature of the ceiling. The mouth 
opens onto a granite shelf, which raises the floor above the level of 
winter flooding. Fine, powdery dirt covered the lower (north) end 
to a depth of 15 cm., while the remainder of the floor consisted of 
