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Ficure 115.—Profile sketch showing the position of the burial jar at the Rupununi Phase 
site of R-16: Upper Karakara Cemetery. 
side of the vessel had been broken out. Parts of the shaft of long 
bones were preserved inside, but the epiphyses and other features used 
for the determination of age and sex were missing. All that can be 
said is that the size of the long bone shafts suggests the individual 
was adult. The jar had the following dimensions: height 31 em.; 
rim diameter 53 cm.; shoulder diameter 45 cm.; neck height 14 cm. 
Although none of the other fissures in this outcrop produced any 
evidence of similar burial jars, the guide reported that some 10 years 
previously this site was visited by another person, who removed a 
vessel from the south side. Six others are said to have been near the 
base on a wide ledge on the east (pl. 58, a). 
R-18: LOWER KARAKARA CEMETERY 
On the right bank of the Karakara River downstream from R-16 is 
a steep hill with abundant outcroppings of granite (fig. 109). Toward 
the top of the hill two large boulders, one leaning against the other, 
form a triangular cave, the mouth of which affords an excellent view 
of the grassy rise across the valley on which the habitation site R-19 
is located. The main part of the cave has a maximum width of about 
