been investigated by the Danish archaeologist, Gudmund Hatt, in
1922-23, was relocated and found to have been largely destroyed in
the building of a road. We determined to include a study of what
was left before it became too late. This was carried on at the same
time as the work on St. John but was not part of the Park Service
contract which was limited to the island of St. John.
 Thus we have these two publications: a site survey of the islands
of St. Thomas and St. John and (coming later) the excavations at
Krum Bay. We feel these publications represent the type of work
we would like to see appear for all the islands of the Greater and
Lesser Antilles. Such research combined with the contributions of
others in this field should eventually form a more or less complete
study of the Pre-Columbian peoples of this chain of fascinating
islands linking North and South America-obviously a secondary
bridge compared with Central America-yet important, if we are
to complete the picture of the ebb and flow of peoples through-
out the prehistorical past of the Americas.
 William J. Bryant