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fragnients of potterv witli numerous rubbing-stones (*) and 
other iniplenients. 
THE TABLÓN 
Opposite the San Roque ground is the Tablón i a dry river- 
bed ( * 2 ) witli broken banks of sandy soil. At the top of tbese 
banks isa level extent of land forming an amphitheatre, bound- 
ed on the north by rocky ridges. The level ground, in the 
greater part of its extent, was strewn witli sinall fragments of 
potterv and chips of worked stone. All this part has been, 
froni time to time, under cultivation. 
THE BALATA 
Nearly two kilometres from the Tablón lies the Balata 
ground, situated on a tongue of land between the beds of two 
small streams. The ground is raised on higli, brolcen banks, 
and is covered witli small, stunted shrubs and scanty grass 
The banks are continually breaking avvay, in some places 
leaving great cavernous boles, in others shallow shelves or 
platforms. All over these shelves, washed out by torrential 
rains, are innumerable fragments of pottery together witli stone 
impleinents. 
Almost all the finds made were surface ones, tliose on the 
San Roque and Tablón sites exposed by the action of the 
rains in some parts and by cultivation in others. The Balata 
ground is in a natural State, never havitig been cultivated, 
and witli few exceptions, the objects found there liad been 
exposed by erosión. There are no iudications of any differences 
of culture between the tliree settlements, wliich were most 
probably contemporaneous, and although by far the largest 
ntimber of the examples of textile-marked pottery fragments 
are from the Balata, — 83.33 7 o as compared witli 4.17 % and 
12.50 °/o from the Tablón and San Roque respectively — , I think 
(t) II y rubbing -ston es I mean the npper or inoveiblc stones of the canana i or mili 
stonesusel f or grinding' grain and other food snbstances. 
(2) The Tablón is one of the many streams which only iun dnring floods. 
