CONCLUSIONS


differential depths in tlhe same field. The Post Office site is the
earlier, Arnos Vale Swamp next, and Arnos Vale Field the most
recent of these sites on the average.
 Grande Anse Interior Incised is much more common, both
 actually and relatively, in the earliest site. St. Vincent Black Zoned
 and Black Filled are absent at the Post Office site and much more
 prominent at the Arnos Vale Swamp than at the Arnos Vale Field
 site. We have suggested above that Vase Mario with its post-fired
 incision was earlier on the average than Arnos Vale Zoned with
 painting over incision. This is strongly supported by the data from
 these three sites. Vase Mario is present and Arnos Vale Zoned absent
 at the Post ()Office while the later outnumbers the former ten to
 one at the Swamp site.
 ()Ou examination of the Venezuelan archaeological literature
and of specimens both in Caracas and at Yale University in New
Haven does not disclose pottery types exactly like those just
mentioned. Nor are they present in collections from Puerto Rico,
Dominican aRepublic and the Virgin Islands. Many of the traits
or modes imluded in these type descriptions, however, are recog-
nizable Barrancoid traits and fairly common in northeastern Vene-
zuela. Also in Test 3 of Excavation 7 at Saladero on the Orinoco
River between depths of .50 and .75 m. was a large fragment (Yale
University Museum cat. no. 218633) of a well made, thin (6-8 mm.)
shallow bowl with curvilinear incision under paint, punctations
at ends of lines, and zoned black and polislied red paint. This was
in a mixed Barrancoid-Saladoid zone, two levels above pure Saladoid
deposits. Typologically, this sherd is related to both St. Lucia Zoned
Incised and St. Vincent Black Zoned and it is interesting to note
its presence in the Orinoco valley at the same relative position
chronologically as on St. Vincent. In passing, it may be well to
mention also that higher levels at the Saladoid site contained many
examples ol wide, sometimes T-shaped, rims with incised decora-
tion duplicating many details of those found on Arnos Vale Incised
and St. Lucia Flanged Incised.
 Perhaps the earliest indication of Barrancoid influences in north-
eastern Veneuela-apparently the earliest site to contain both Sala-
doid and Barrancoid traits-is Irapa at the base of the Peninsula of
Paria. This site (Cruxent and Rouse 1959: Figs. 97-98, P1. 46, 2-24)
has fairly thick pottery, keels or bent inward rims, some thick
ovate lips, fairly massive adornos, and non-Saladoid inner rim