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Ficure 113.—Sketch map of the Rupununi Phase cemetery site of R-1: Moco Moco Shelter, 
showing the position of the burial jars. 
cm.; rim thickness6 mm. Associated with this jar were a number of 
sherds of both Kanuku and Rupununi Plain, representing at least 
four smaller vessels, none of them reconstructable. It seems probable 
that this is a complex of funerary jars comparable to the better pre- 
served ones of R-34 and R-35. The post-European date of R-1 is 
established by the presence of tiny white glass beads with Vessel 1 
(see table L, pp. 315-817). This specimen is now in the British 
Guiana Museum, Georgetown. 
R-14: ROCK POINT 
Northwest of Annai Village at the base of the Pakaraima Mountains 
is an area known as the Aranapunta Valley (fig. 109). On the south 
side of the east end of this valley is a grassy knoll sprinkled with Sand- 
paper trees. Slightly higher than the surrounding area, it is not 
inundated in the rainy season. Excavation at a spot indicated by the 
chief of Annai Village revealed a completely buried vessel of Kanuku 
Plain Form 3 b (pl. 65, 6). It had been covered with an equally 
large vessel of Kanuku Plain Form 38 a, inverted so that its rim rested 
on the inner surface of the upper wall of the jar below (fig. 114). 
The bottom of this lid had once projected above the surface of the 
ground and had been broken with the passage of time. Four small 
rocks had been arranged along the east and southeast side so that their 
upper edges were from 9 cm. above the broken edge of the lid to 5 em. 
below this line. The dirt inside the vessel was wet at the top, becom- 
ing dryer and harder with increased depth. Scattered sherds from 
