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An Account of Some Recent Excavations at Seba, British Guiana*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

J. E. L. Carter
J. E. L. Carter*
Affiliation:
Brighton, Trinidad, B.W.I.
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This paper concerns an excavation carried out by the author at a newly reported prehistoric site at Seba in British Guiana. The work done was very limited, being intended originally to be only exploratory, but by a fortunate chance an unusual and substantial cache of stone and pottery artifacts was found in one of the trial pits. This yielded a considerable amount of information about both the material and non-material culture of the site, thus lending more interest and value to the work than normally expected from excavations of such small extent.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , July 1943 , pp. 89 - 99
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1943

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Footnotes

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I would like to acknowledge here my indebtedness to the United States and British Army authorities who made this work possible, to Mr. J. A. Bullbrook for much invaluable information about the archaeology and geology of British Guiana, to Mr. K. Barr for his geological opinion on the material, to Miss Dorothy Mathison for hours of patient work put into the reconstruction of the pottery vessels, and to Professors Cornelius Osgood and Irving Rouse for advice and help in connection with publication.

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