Thirteen new archaeological sites were found in the Rupununi Savannah, Region Nine during an anthropology field visit to the Karanambo Ranch, archaeologist attached to the Boise State University, Dr Mark Plew said, according to the Government Information Agency.
Speaking at a Public lecture on Tuesday at the Umana Yana, Kingston that was hosted by the Culture, Youth and Sport Ministry, Dr. Plew said most of the territory in the Rupununi is uncharted.
The discoveries were made over the past weeks and included a large area where stone implements were being made, GINA said.
“There were stone hoes and knives. We have never found anything like this in the Rupununi, and as large as those.
Some of them were three or four times the size of the Umana Yana, really large areas and the raw material is really dense…I have never seen anything like that,” Dr. Plew stated, according to GINA.
“We have already catalogued all of them, all of them have been processed and already photographed and they are being stored at the Walter Roth museum,” he told the gathering.
Body parts, he said were found. These were of three females, one male and the other could not be determined, all of which were between the ages of 20 to 38 years.
