ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN


Rouse (1941, 1952a) for nearby Puerto Rico, this difference should
have significance. Pottery types are analytical tools. It seems better
to have too many types at first, even if some are eliminated later,
than to have to split a type at a later date.
 Various ceramic profiles have been presented in Figure 3. This
illustration does not claim to be complete but only to include
those most easily iccogni/.iile in our sample. As will be shown
later, there is a close correlation between flaring bowls and Coral
paste. The dish form is, apparently, as common in Coral as in
other pastes while the plate, which apparently does not occur in
Coral paste, is more apt to be made of Bordeaux than of Botany
paste.


 Botany Series

 Vessels of the Botany Series are made of a heavy, grit-tempered
paste. Temper is abundant and consists of a mixture of crushed
rock, pebbles, coarse sand (P1. III), and, sometimes, other inclu-
sions (P1. XIV, e). Temper particles average large in size as many
are 3 mm. and some 7 mm. across. Typically, fractures produce
jagged edges (PI. XII, f). Clay and aplastic are well mixed and
the paste well (onsolidated. Only occasionally are holes formed by
the leaching of limestone particles.
 Construction, except in the case of hand-modeled miniature ves-
sels, is done by coiling. Vessel walls vary from 4 to 16 mm. in
thickness but usually are in the 7 to 9 mm. range. Surface hardness
is about 2.5 on Mohs' scale. Color varies from dark gray to gray
tan, brown, and gray red with cores darker than surfaces.
 Surfaces are scraped (Pls. III, c; VI, k) and sometimes burnished
 (P1. VI, d). Interiors of vessels are usually more carefully smoothed
 than exteriors. Sometimes interior surfaces exhibit a wash or slip.
 In general, decorated vessels are made with finer temper and have
 more attention paid to their surfaces than is the case with undeco-
rated vessels.
Botany Plain-vessels of Botany paste without any decoration except,
sometimes an interior wash. Sherds which exhibit no decoration but
which are from decorated vessels of Botany paste are included under
Botany Plain.