Pre-Colombian Jamaica: Caribbean Archeology and Ethnohistory

5 / Nature of the Collection
The sites fully mapped by James Lee at the final count come to 265, of which
201 are middens or open- air sites and 64 are caves. One hundred ninety- one
of these sites have artifacts or other remains that are included in the collection,
of which 164 are middens and 27 are caves. In addition, Lee listed 77 sites he
did not succeed in finding or mapping. Thirty- six of these are old sites mentioned
by his predecessors, particularly Duerden (1897), Cundall (1939), and
Howard (1950). Forty- one were new sites that Lee had heard of but the existence
of which he was not able to confirm. The details given in the CD- ROM
essentially refer only to the 265 fully documented sites, plus the five sites discovered
or investigated more thoroughly by others after 1986, as mentioned in
Chapter 2. These are Aboukir (Aarons 1994; Saunders and Gray 1996), Potoo
Hole (Fincham and Fincham 1998), Nanny Town (Agorsah 1994; Callum,
2001), Paradise Park (with two locations, Paradise and Sweetwater, Keegan et
al. 2003), and New Seville (Woodward 1988, 2006).
There are 28,149 artifacts from the 191 sites that are listed in the inventory
and that can be accessed under their individual site names in the CD- ROM.
There are also 1,221 identified shells, 393 identified animal bones, and 389
identified human bones. In addition, information is provided about 158 other
artifacts, which Lee collected but which remain a part of the Lee family property
and are housed in Runaway Bay. For analytical purposes, in the overall inventory
the material was divided into 18 categories: (1) decorated rim sherds;
(2) plain rim sherds; (3) decorated body sherds; (4) plain body sherds; (5) lugs;
(6) handles; (7) complete vessels; (8) decorated griddles; (9) plain griddles; (10)