DISCUSSION


 the arrival of the Caribs who are supposed to have reached the
 Virgin Islands less than a hundred years before Columbus while
 the changes under discussion must have occurred many hundreds
 of years earlier. This is a good place to mention, also, that we found
 nothing in our survey or analysis suggesting any occupation by
 Caribs as opposed to Arawak Indians.
 It has been indicated earlier that the Coral complex is similar
 to the Cuevas style of Puerto Rico and the Cedros style of Trinidad.
 This may seem strange when I have emphasized the presence of
 Botany and Hull Wide Handled vessels and Griddles. Rouse's
 (1952a: 336, 338) definition of the Cuevas style states "While some
 Cuevas pottery is crude, the majority of the sherds are unusually
 well made" and "More commonly a vertical strap handle is affixed
 to each end of the vessel. Most such handles are D-shaped; some
 are surmounted with single peglike lugs (Plate 2, K)." Examina-
 tion of this plate discloses an excellent representation of a Botany
 Wide Handled sherd. The roughness of the surface and the irregu-
 larities at fracture edges are those of Botany paste. Similarly, in his
 definition of the Cedros style, Rouse (1947) includes this D-shaped
 strap-handled vessel and his illustration again includes what is
 identifiable as part of a Botany Wide Handled vessel.
 In other words, both the Cuevas and Cedros styles, like the Coral
 complex, include utilitarian handled vessels and griddles made of
 a coarse paste. This dichotomy in ceramics is not limited to the
 Antilles and Trinidad as it is also found in Central America and
 in the Saladoid styles of northeastern Venezuela, if I correctly in-
 terpret illustrations of El Mayal and Saladero pottery (Cruxent
 and Rouse 1958: Fig. 92; P1. 44, 15; P1. 89, 1, 5).
 Rouse, in his terminology, would call the Coral complex the
Coral style and combine it with the Cuevas and Cedros styles to
form the Antillean branch of his Saladoid ceramic series (Cruxent
and Rouse 1958: 120-21). This he has done many times in his
various interpretations of the archaeology of the Caribbean Islands
but he has referred to this complex under Hatt's term as the Coral-
Longford (St. Croix) group of sites.
 When did people with a Saladoid ceramic complex migrate from
Trinidad through the Lesser Antilles to bring the Coral complex
to the Virgin Islands and the Cuevas style to Puerto Rico? There