ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN


1). Presence of rim horns and lugs are shown for El Mayal (A.D.
165) and Ronquin, both late Saladoid styles (Cruxent and Rouse
1958: Fig. 90, la; PI. 86). Crude adornos, incised inner lips, and
rim points are present in the Irapa style found near the middle
of the northern coast of Venezuela. This site has a radiocarbon date
of around A.D. 375 (Cruxent and Rouse 1958: P1. 46; 131). Simi-
lar occurrences can be pointed out for other, but usually later, cul-
ture styles. A similarity in idea but not in execution is presented
by the representation of a frog looking into a vessel found both at
Magens Bay (P1. II, b-c and in the Las Minas culture of the moun-
tains south of Caracas (Cruxent and Rouse 1958: Fig. 147). The
idea is relatively late in both areas.
 Forgetting paste, construction, and shape for the moment, it is
evident that some of the traits found in the M.igeni II complex,
such as small rim lugs, incised inner lips and possible crude adornos,
were present in the Saladero ceramics of the Orinoco and the
slightly later El Mayal, Ronquin and Irapa styles. Their apparent
lack in Cedros, Coral, and Cuevas may indicate they were lost
during the migration northward, as suggested by Cruxent and
Rouse (1958: 221) or that the first migrants left before these traits
were d(\ eloped (the view taken here and previously held, I believe,
by Rouse).
 In either case, these traits were present along the Vc-n/uetlan
coast at or shortly after pottery was introduced into the Antilles.
Laggards or a second group of migrants may have taken these ideas
with them. It is also to be expected that communication with the
mainland was not entirely cut off during the centuries represented
by Magens IJA, B, and C periods. Long distance trade by boats
or from island to island would permit ideas to trickle along the
Lesser Antilles (Loven 1935: 53; Cruxent and Rouse 1958: 26, 30).
Such communication probably accounts for the introduction of
the incised casuela, an apparently relatively late trait wherever
found.
 The great change in temper and surface treatment implicit with
the shift from the Coral to the Magens complex merits further
comment in spite of the fact that coarse grit-tempered utilitarian
wares were present in the Coral-Cuevas styles.
 Cruxent and Rouse (1958: 213-223) have demonstrated a Bar-