Pre-Colombian Jamaica: Caribbean Archeology and Ethnohistory

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Figure 15.1 and 15.4. Both are anthropomorphic lugs from Round Hill. Both
are incised and applied, but the first is clearly on a boat end, with portions of
the adjoining rim with an open alternate oblique design on the top. Particularly
striking are three earthenware zemis from S12 Naggo Head, Y14 Iter Boreale,
and M1 Wards Bay (15.2, 15.3, and 15.8). It is noteworthy that all of
them are perforated, and they may well have served as pendants. The three shell
teeth insets already mentioned are from A16 Liberty Hill, J10 Cinnamon Hill,
and C1 Round Hill (15.5, 15.6, and 15.7). The first and third are seen from
the top and side and have a generally human appearance; the second is viewed
from the two sides and seems to have represented a crocodile. Finally, there are
four more pierced Oliva shells (15.9–12). Such shells therefore come from all
types of site, and they are a well- known item of Pre- Columbian adornment in
the Caribbean generally (cf. Dacal Moure and Rivera de la Calle 1996:Colored
Plate 13).
Apart from the artifacts, the other items in the overall inventory (nos. 15–
17) have not been neglected. The shells have been analyzed by Simon Mitchell
(Department of Geography and Geology, University of the West Indies,
Mona Campus) and the fauna was further subdivided into animal and human
bones. The animal bones were studied by Lisabeth Carlson (Southeastern Archaeological
Research Inc., Gainesville, Florida) and the human bones by Ana
Luisa Santos (Departamento de Antropología, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal).
Full information on these aspects is contained in the reports of the authors
concerned that are part of the CD- ROM, where, as mentioned in Chapter
1, a special display will also be found with 20 of the late Audrey Wiles’s
paintings of fish. In addition, the results concerning excavated sites and fauna,
and burials and human bones, are considered in some detail in Chapters 9 and
10, where an attempt is made to put them within the general context of prehistory
in Jamaica.