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simply decorated Ulua Polychrome sherds (pi. 3, &) in Naco refuse 

 mounds indicates that other, local cultures were contemporaneous in 

 the region. Little attention has as yet been paid to the historic and late 

 prehistoric cultures of the Jicaque and other local inhabitants of 

 northwestern Honduras. 



Table i. — Apparent Sequence of Ceramic Types in Northzvestern Honduras. 

 Ulua Yojoa 



Table 2. — Probable Correlation betzuecn present Ulna Polychrome Classification 

 (Table i) and those of Gordon (189S) and Vaillant {1927) 



Ulua Polychrome 



Upper Mayoid 



Upper Bold 

 Geometric 



Ulua Polychrome 



Lower Mayoid 



Lower Bold 

 Geometric 



Gordon's B 

 Gordon's C 



Gordon's A 

 Gordon's C 



Vaillant's III and IV 

 Vaillant's V 



Vaillant's I and II 

 Vaillant's V 



The prehistoric polychrome wares of the Ulua have been classified 

 on typological grounds by Gordon (1898), and by Vaillant (1927). 

 In general their classifications seem to accord with our stratigraphic 

 findings as above (table 2). Gordon clearly distinguished the Bold 

 Geometric as Type C, and the Mayoid as Types A and B, but has 

 nothing to say regarding sequence. Vaillant makes a mistake when 

 he assumes, on stylistic grounds, that the Bold Geometric (Ulua Poly- 

 chrome V) developed out of the Mayoid style and was therefore later. 

 Strong makes the same mistake in regard to the related Bay Island 



