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definite shift in the economic orientation of people. Fish and
shellfish proved to be a dependable food supply in the local en-
vironment. By living on or at the beaches, people did not entirely
give up agriculture as is well documented by the numerous griddle
fragments found at these sites. They undoubtedly grew manioc in
the low flat land found behind most of these settlements. One
wonders, however, if the people of the Coral complex may not also
have cultivated cotton or maize as well as manioc.



 Table 6 has been prepared to indicate the temporal relationships
between the results of our work and cultural-chronological schemes
presented by Rouse for Puerto Rico and Trinidad. Reference is
also made to Hatt's formulations.
 In the summer of 1962, Rouse and Ricardo E. Alegria of the
 Institute de Cultura Puertorriquena made additional excavations
 in the Loiza region of Puerto Rico. This work-which was done
 after my report was written-delienated a new, very early, ceramic
 period (Hacienda Grande) and resulted in a realignment of the
 culture periods of eastern Puerto Rico. Subsequently, radiocarbon
 runs were made at Yale University on carbon secured during this
 work. These results were presented at the annual meeting of the
 Society for American Archaeology at Boulder, Colorado, May 2,
 1963 in a paper entitled "Recent Radiocarbon Dates for the West
 Indies" by Irving Rouse, Ricardo E. Alegria, and Minze Struiver.
 With the kind permission of these workers, I have used these new
 cultural alignments and dates in preparing the chronological chart.
 The time periods shown (II-IV) are those used by Rouse (1962:
 41) for Venezuela and the Caribbean region. Period I, sometimes
 referred to as the "Archaic," has been omitted as I do not believe
 man was present in the West Indies during that period. The pre-
 ceramic cultures shown for Period IIa represent, of course, an ex-
 tension of Period I people-or at least the Archaic way of life-into
 the Antilles.
 The relationships shown are predominantly temporal ones.
 While a great many similarities exist between the archaeology of
 the Virgin Islands and that of Puerto Rico, there does not seem to
 be exact cultural identity.