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Titre : Annual report of the Bureau of American ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian institution
Auteur : Bureau of American ethnology (Washington, D.C.)
Éditeur : Government printing office (Washington)
Date d'édition : 1895-1964
Contributeur : Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902). Directeur de publication
Type : texte,publication en série imprimée
Langue : Anglais
Format : application/pdf
Identifiant : ark:/12148/cb37575968z/date
Identifiant : ISSN 0097269X
Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France
Relation : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37575968z
Description : Périodicité : Annuel
Description : Etat de collection : n. 1 (1879)-n. 48 (1931)
Provenance : bnf.fr
Date de mise en ligne : 12/01/2009
1903 (N25)-1904. Note : Index.
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82 THE ABOBIGINE8 OF PORTO RICO LETB:.ANN.2B
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disappeared, and the remainder have been partially destroyed, so tliat
it can not be determined whether the walls once completely surrounded
the inclosure or whether passageways were left in the corners or other
places. Doctor Stahl mentions one of these sites near the source of
the Bayamon river, on the border of Aguas Buenas and Bayamon.
Another was found on the banks of the Manati river, in the high
mountains o'f Corosal.
The ball courts examined by the present author were situated for
the most part on terraces or on land fringing rivers, elevated high
enough to be above freshets, and yet lying in river valleys that could
be cultivated. The center of the inclosure is ordinarily lower than
the surrounding plain. In most instances the alignment of the stones
bas been disturbëd, and none of these structures which bas been
examined has an unbroken surrounding wall. As a rule, only a few
of thé stones which once composed them now stand upright. Many
of these structures are now found in the mountains but there is good
evidence that in prehistoric times they were most numerous on the
coastal plains. The latter regions are now given up mostly to sugar
cultivation and have been planted with cane for so many years that all
traces of aboriginal structures in them have been completely oblit-
erated. Along the banks of the Rio Grande de Arecibo and its tribu-
taries there are still found.many remuants of bail courts, especially in
the high mountains in the middle of the island. At present the best
preserved are found near the towns Utuado and Adjuntas. There is a
good specimen about 50 steps from the main road between Utuado
and Adjuntas, just north of the latter town. ·
During his archeological studies in Utuado in 1903 over 20 5<~ys
were brought to the author's attention, the most important and best-
preserved being somewhat distant from that town. The following
may be mentioned as the best known: (1) Cayuco, (2) Arenas, (3) Salto
Arriba, (4) Vivi Abajo, (5) Jayuya, (6) Mameyes, (7) Paso del Palma,
(8) Alonso, (9) Alfonso, (10) several in the barrios of Utuado.
Just outside the boundary wall of everyone of the inclosures studied
by the author there were found one or more low mounds which bear
superficial ev idences of having been made by human hands. Excava-
tions in one of these mounds near Utuado were made by the writer in
1903, and a brief reference to the result of his work appears in the
following quotation from his account of Porto Rican pictography: a
In my studies of one of these inclosures at Utuado I found that the main road
from that town to Adjuntas had eut through the edge of one of the mounds, b reveal-
ing, a few feet below the surface, a layer of soil containing fragments of pottery, a
few broken celts, and the long bones of an adult. This discovery induced me to
extend a trench diametrically through the mound, parallel with the sides of the
<t~lmerM'<mJLH</fmpo!ûs'M, n. s., v., no. 3, 457, 1903.
b The author identifies tnese mounds with the caneys mentioned by Antonio Bachiller y Morales
in his well-known work, Cuba Primitiva.
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