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Ficure 60.—Rim profiles of sand-tempered (top) and cariapé-tempered (bottom) sherds from 
the Charlesburg site near Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, collected by Peter Goethals and 
deposited in the Peabody Museum, Yale University. 
occasional relief (pl. 37), outfiaring bowls and angular rimmed jars 
(fig. 60). The only major difference between this pottery and that 
of the Koriabo Phase is in temper. Classification shows the sample 
of 332 shreds to be almost equally divided between those with sand 
(44.5 percent) and those with cariapé (41.8 percent), with the remain- 
ing few containing particles of black ash. In the Koriabo Phase, 
cariapé-tempered sherds never exceed 6.8 percent of the total, and this 
maximum is near the middle of the seriated sequence rather than at the 
beginning (fig. 57). Nevertheless, in view of the other close sim- 
ilarities between these two complexes, and in the absence of any 
evidence of affiliations to the west in Venezuela or to the south, deriva- 
tion of the Koriabo Phase from Dutch Guiana seems the most logical 
conclusion. Although the chronological position of the Charlesburg 
site is unknown, this inference is strengthened by the extension of the 
distribution of outflaring lobed rims and similar styles of incised and 
scraped decoration along the Guiana coast as far as the Aristé Phase 
in the northern part of the Territory of Amap4. On the basis of the 
chronological position of these traits in the Territory of Amapa, it 
has been concluded that their geographical distribution corresponds 
to a northwestward path of diffusion in relatively late times (Meggers 
and Evans, 1957, fig. 206). The movement of the Koriabo Phase into 
the Northwest District is in keeping with this interpretation and 
