ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN


mund Hatt in part of the Krum Bay site in 1922-23 and examined
by me at the Danish National Museum, Copenhagen, in 1960 will
be included. Appreciation is due Dr. Kaj Birket-Smith, chief cura-
tor at that institution, for making possible the examination of the
Krum Bay specimens.
 In the accompanying paper, Sleight covers the geological, en-
vironmental, and ecological factors of this research including food
remains. My paper is concerned with archaeological evidence, items
of material culture, their associations in the ground, and interpre-
tations deduced from them. It is oriented towards the develop-
ment of a ceramic chronology or temporal frlamcWOi k into which
future excavations may be placed. To this end the work at Magens
Bay is essential. Other sites on St. Thomas are included to give as
well rounded a picture as possible.
 Locations of sites on St. Thomas are shown on the accompany-
ing map (Fig. 4), those on St. John will be found on the map (Fig.
2) accompanying Sleight's report. Site attributes are included in
his paper. Mention of other work at these sites and of collections
from them made by others will be found in appropriate places in
the sections covering sites.
 Much important data pertinent to the Magens Bay and Coral
Bay sites are contained in the collections made by Hatt in 1922-23
and catalogued by square and level at the Danish National Museum.
Unfortunately, Hatt did not finish a detailed report on this work
before his recent death. I hope the Danish National Museum will
publish a full report on this work in his memory.


 CERAMIC TYPOLOGY

 For ease of description and for ordering of ceramic data, a sys-
tem of pottery type nomenclature similar to that in use in the
southeastern part of the United States (March 1934; Ford and
Griffin 1937; 1938) recommends itself. This method has been
chosen for this report instead of that of "styles" as used in neigh-
boring Puerto Rico by Irving Rouse (1952a) because I do not
find, except in the case of the earliest ceramic period, a one-to-one
relationship between Puerto Rican "styles" and what would be a
"style" grouping in the Virgin Islands sherdss from one level of