LONG MILE CAVE

   
Long Mile Cave (also known as "Pick'ny Mama Cave") is an unremarkable overhang in a rock face near Windsor. But it is famous for being the site where the first evidence of a native primate (MacPhee, R.D.E. and J.B. Fleagle (1991). Postcranial remains of Xenothrix mcgregori (Primates, Xenotrichidae) and other Later Quaternary mammals from Long Mile Cave (Bulletin American Museum of Natural History 206:287-321.) were found in Jamaica, by Harold E. Anthony' (mammologist at American Museum of Natural History, NY). He visited Windsor in 1920 and stayed at the Great House.

In addition to the primate bones he also found Amerindian bones and pottery shards.

The site was further excavated in 1993 and a new species of rodent was discovered by McPhee, McFarlane and Alan Fincham. The latter was responsible for writing the very excellent book, Jamaica Underground, 1997, The Press, University of the West Indies, from which the drawing is copied ( BUY a Copy).

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