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Dr. Gordon Willey and Albert Norweb excavated the Cruz site ( named after the Cruz Hacienda ), on the North East part of the island.

This site is important because it produced nearly 30, 000 sherds, most of which belonged to the Late Polychrome Period.

The upper levels of the site produced the diagnostic ceramic types which came to define the Late Polychrome Period for the whole of the Rivas area.

Pieces were also found from the San Jorge phase of the Zoned Bichrome Period ( Healy, 1980 ).