Pre-Colombian Jamaica: Caribbean Archeology and Ethnohistory

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Figure 1. Jamaican parishes and Lee codes.
C1. But, in addition, Lee considered that caves should be listed separately
from open- air sites, and therefore Milk River (the first such site in the parish)
becomes CC1, the second C standing for cave. And so forth across the island.
Further details concerning the way in which Lee mapped the sites are given in
Chapter 6.
Navigating the CD- ROM
1. The opening page of the CD- ROM contains six “entry points” labeled: sites,
quick queries, Lee family collection, picture gallery, bones and shells, and map.
2. Sites. This contains the basic information about every site on the system.
The sites are listed by name alphabetically and the user is required to “select a
site to view.” When this is done, a window will appear with six different headings:
geographical data, inventory, decorative techniques, motifs, vessels, water
jars. As an example, the user could click on White Marl (S1). The window
will open on (1) geographical data. Most displayed categories, in this case, contain
information, but a few are blank (for example, petroglyph and pictograph)
meaning that this site does not contain those features. Each site is marked on a
map, of which there are 129 in total, some containing more than one site. The
site positions on the maps are as noted by Lee. There is a “summary” that pro-