DISCUSSION


rancas style which immediately 'ucteeded the Saladero styles in
the Orinoco valley. Their description of this pottery in temper,
thickness, surface treatment, color, and shape is remarkably like that
of Botany Plain vessels. I would be tempted to make a correlation
between the Magens complex and the Banrramtid of Venezuela
were it not for the fact that certain typical Bairaincoid decoration
(Cruxent and Rouse 1958: Pls. 90-94) is not found in the Virgin
Islands (although it is found in parts of the Lesser Antilles.) It
would seem that components of the Barrancoid complex may have
entered the Antilles with the Saladezi migration if it oc( urred late
enough or that, after the original migration, people bearing an
early form of the Barrancoid culture either migrated or infiltrated
the Antilles.
 The first inhabitants of the islands of St. Thomas and St. John
came in preceramic times. About the time of Christ, pottery was
introduced by migrating people from South America bearing a
Saladoid culture. They undoubtedly were agricultural and they
settled first near Coral Bay on what was the best agricultural land
on that island. Their next settlement, at Cruz Bay, was also a
little distant from the edge of salt water. From these bases, over
a period of time, little groups started to live at Cinnamon and
Little Cinnamon Bays, near Francis Bay, probably near Durloe Bay,
all on St. John, and at Magens Bay on St. Thomas.
 This expansion may have been the result of a natural increase
in population or it may have been caused, in part, by the arrival
of new people from the south-people who manufactured grit-
tempered pottery of the Barrancoid series.
 Shortly, Coral Bay was abandoned, possibly because of drought,
 and the prominent settlements on St. John were located at Turtle
 Point, Cinnamon Bay, and Francis Bay. Meanwhile the settlement
 at Magens Bay on St. Thomas prospered and another fairly large
 one was established at Botany Bay. Casual occupation also oc-
 curred at the bays between Botany and Magens and on the north-
 west side of Water Island. While small settlcmenti or camp sites
 along the south shore of St. John were made, they did not prosper.
 The migration of sites from agricultural land to bays and the
 increase in size and number of sites, as shown by the study of pot-
 tery types, not only represents an increase in population but a