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Archeology of the Virgin islands (1919)

Booy, Theodoor Hendrik Nikolaas de, 1882-1919 · New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 37

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ST THOMAS SITE 31 sents a typical West Indian kitchen-mid- den, or rubbish-heap, of the same kind as the one in Jamaica described by the writer in a former paper, "^ excepting that no extensive shell layers were found. … Fig. 2. — Excavation in the aboriginal mound. Where in the Jamaica middens one finds first a layer of diluvium, next a stratum of shells, then one of ashes, and finally the original surface of limestone marl, at Magen's bay is found first the layer of diluvium, then a layer in which ashes. AND…

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