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fragments of shells, or the innumerable varieties of hardwoods, much easier to 

 prepare than stone tips, may have answered the required purpose in warfare. 



The first intensive archeological investigations in eastern Santo 

 Domingo were conducted by Theodore De Booy in 1913 for the 

 Museum of the American Indian (Heye Foundation). De Booy's 

 explorations extended southward from Cape Macao, a point approxi- 

 mately 50 kilometers south of Cape Raphael, which promontory 

 marks Uie southern entrance to the Bay of Samana. At Salado, near 

 Cape Macao, caves werei explored and an intensive study made of the 

 pottery types there uncovered.^ 



During the same season in which he explored the cave deposits at 

 Salado, De Booy studied the cave deposits on the eastern end of the 

 island of Saona, which constitutes the extreme southeastern projection 

 of the island of Haiti. In 1916 a large shell heap ® on the Cristobal 

 Colon sugar estate on the Higuamo River near the town of San Pedro 

 de Macoris, on the southern coast east of Santo Domingo City, was 

 excavated. Pottery types from eastern Santo Domingo discovered 

 by De Booy are practically identical with earthenware types re- 

 covered from Anadel and San Juan by the Museum expedition. 



Dr. J. Walter Fewkes describes pottery types from eastern Santo 

 Domingo, but includes no specimens from Samana.^ Aside from the 

 typically Taioan earthenware described by Doctor Fewkes, the most 

 striking resemblances to pottery from the San Juan site on Samana 

 are the fragments recovered by him from the Cueva de las Golon- 

 drinas near Manati, in Porto Rico. 



GEOGRAPHY OF SAMANA 



Early tramel and trade routes. — The archipelago known as the 

 "West Indies extends from Florida to South America in the form of a 

 crescent, a distance of 1,600 miles. Something regarding the geog- 

 raphy and geology of the archipelago must be known and considered 

 if the archeology of this extensive geographical area is to be dis- 

 cussed. More particularly must geographical data carefully be 

 brought to bear on the archeological situation of Samana, the region 

 particularly under consideration. 



The northern islands of the West Indian Archipelago, the Ba- 

 hamas, were known as the Lucayan Islands to the aboriginal Arawak 

 population. These islands are of a low lying coralline formation 

 like that of Florida, which is but 60 miles distant from the nearest 



' Pottery from Certain Caves in Eastern Santo Domingo, West Indies, Amercian Antliro- 

 pologist, new ser., vol. 17, No. 1, January-Marcii, 1915. 



8 Santo Domingo Kitchen-Midden and Burial Mound, vol. 1, No. 2, Indian Notes and 

 Monographs, Museum of the American Indian, New York, 1919. 



» The Aborigines of Porto Rico and Neighboring Islands, Twenty-fifth Annual Report of 

 the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1907. Also Culture Areas in the West Indies, Thirty- 

 fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1922. 



