ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN


manufacture of lugged and horned containers has begun to wane.
While the use of Bay paste to produce a pseudo-red-painted effect
is still used, Magens paste is all but forgotten.
 Correlating changes in other artifacts are harder to define.
 Celts with ground polls seem limited to the Magens I or Coral
 complex times. Large and small petaloid celts are known for the
 Magens IIB period while small ones appear to be the only form in
 the final stage. Sherd discs and clay spindle whorls are fairly com-
 mon in Magens IIC times but may have been present earlier. It is
 doubtful if they were present during the Magens I period as we
 found none at Coral Bay and Hatt con()1pituo1Lsl) omits Coral
 Bay when discussing these artifacts.
 It seems only reasonable to assume that the introduction of the
 Coral complex correlated with a migration of pottery making people
 into the Virgin Islands. That the break between the Coral and
 Magens complexes was caused by another migration is not so evi-
 dent. Certainly the extinction of all of the Coral Series ceramics
 and their replacement by vessels of different temper, different
 shapes, and different decoration is drastic enough for the postula-
 tion of a new migration. But, analysis of the whole Coral complex-
 utilitarian as well as semiceremonial-suggests that all the necessary
 techniques and prototypes for the Magens ceramic complex were
 present in the ceramics of the Coral complex. Even the idea of
 adding finely ground shell particles to the paste was present in the
 few Harbor Series sherds found in all levels at the Coral Bay site.
 Either a new migratory wave caused the changes between the
Coral and the Magens ceramic complexes or these changes came
about as a result of ordinary processes of culture change. This
would not mean a process of isolated internal evolution. Rather I
would suggest a nearly pan-Antillean process. The Coral complex
was brought to the Virgin Islands from the south. Over genera-
tions new ideas and changes in pottery techniques filtered north-
ward along the islands of the Lesser Antilles. There was also a
backwash from the Greater Antilles. Different modes were empha-
sized more on different islands. Such a process plus local modifica-
tions finally resulted in the culture found by the first explorers.
 Even if a migration is believed to have caused the break between
the Coral and Magens complexes, it could not be correlated with