DISCUSSION


Antilles around the time of Christ.
 Cruxent and Rouse (1958: 245) would date expansion to Trini-
dad and the Antilles as after the development at El Mayal, i.e., after
A.D. 165 or some two hundred years later than I have done above.
It should also be mentioned that Rouse, who has seen some of the
pottery from Coral Bay, would place it as late Cuevas, not early
Cuevas, in date. This correlation, if confirmed by future study,
would place our Coral Bay collection as a little later in time than
has been indicated here.
 There are also some radiocarbon datles secured by Fred Olsen
for the Antigua Archaeological Society from the Brook site on the
island of Antigua. Pottery similar to that of the Cuevas-Coral-
Cedros styles is present at this site as well as more recent pottery.
Dates from the earliest deposit were announced by Olsen at the
First International Convention for the Study of Pre-Columbian
Culture in the Lesser Antilles in Martinique, July, 1961, as 400-
500 B.C. based on a radiocarbon determination on a charcoal sample
by The Humble Oil and Refining Company and as about 340 B.C.
based on a similar run at Yale University. In the abstract of Crux-
ent and Rouse's paper entitled "Recent Radiocarbon Dates for the
Caribbean Area" presented at the Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting
of the Society for American Archaeology at Tuscon in May, 1962,
this date in given as 240 B.C. Irrespective of the exact date for
the lowest part of the Antigua site, any of these dates would
place pottery making people on Antigua 200 to 400 years earlier
than has been suggested above. However, having seen some of the
pottery from the Brook site, I feel it is later than the Coral com-
plex and I would question whether these dates and the pottery are
ton ntlpol ,neous.
 Present knowledge is not sufficient to resolve this question but
all of the dates given in the previous paragraphs are of the same
order of magnitude and indicate pottery probably entered the
Caribbean Islands around the time of Christ. Whether it was 500
B.C. or A.D. 200 remains for the future to determine. Of one
thing we can be reasonably certain. Pottery was not used at Coral
Bay much before the time of Christ as we have a radiocarbon
date of about 200 B.C. (Bullen and Sleight 1963) for the pre-
ceramic part of Krum Bay site on St. Thomas.