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Porto Rico, (2) Jamaica, (3) eastern Cuba and Bahamas, (4) 

 St. Kitts, (5) St. Vincent, (6) Barbados, (7) Trinidad. The 

 differences in artifacts characteristic of these culture centers of 

 the Antilles are sometimes small; thus, the Porto Rico area, 

 which includes also Hayti and Santo Domingo on the one side 

 and the Danish islands on the other, is clearly allied to the 

 eastern Cuba and Bahama area. In the former we have the 

 three types of stone implements — stone collars, elbow stones, 

 and three pointed idols — none of which has yet been found 

 in Cuba, the Bahamas, or Jamaica. Pottery from these islands, 

 except the last mentioned, bears rectilinear or curved lines end-^ 

 ing in enlargements,^ a decorative feature which is absent in 

 Jamaica. This feature does not occur in the Lesser Antilles 

 from St. Thomas to Trinidad, where four different regions of 

 decorated pottery can be differentiated. 



An adequate account of the characteristic features that dif- 

 ferentiate the seven Antillean culture centers of the West Indies 

 would swell this article to undue proportions, but will be con- 

 sidered at length in a report on the magnificent Heye collection 

 of West Indian antiquities. 



Test the author may be thought to have confused the ancestral 

 cavern culture with a secondary cave life due to an adaptation 

 to environment, it may be added that the former is that discussed 

 in this article. 



' This characteristic feature of Porto Rican pottery decoration appears on 

 characteristic pottery found by Mr. Clarence Moore in mounds of northern 

 Florida. 



