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apparent frequency of Kaituma Incised and Punctate also favors such 
a correlation. The site at Chateau Margot, slightly to the west, 
appears to have produced a similar pottery complex, although Osgood 
mentions that there was more of the “Barrancos style of incising and 
more sherds appliqued with wavy strips” (op. cit., p. 54). Pottery 
collected from the same two sites earlier by W. E. Roth (MS.) also 
includes adornos of the late Mabaruma Phase style (fig. 59, a-g). 
Another site was reported in the late 19th century by Im Thurn 
(1884, pp. 126-1387) at Enmore, some 24 km. east of Mon Repos. 
Decorated sherds are said to be very common, and the illustrations 
(op. cit., pls. 15-17) indicate that Aruka Incised and Akawabi Incised 
and Modeled were represented. One sherd is from a vessel of 
Akawabi Incised and Modeled Form 4, which is restricted to the latter 
half of the Mabaruma Phase sequence (fig. 49). Unfortunately, there 
is no information on the temper of the pottery from any of these Kast 
Coast Demerara sites. The apparent frequency of decorated sherds 
is comparable to that in the Mabaruma Phase, however, so these sites 
probably can be interpreted as representing extensions of that culture 
eastward rather than as examples of trade. Since they appear to be 
of the same general time period as that in which the Abary Phase- 
Mabaruma Phase contact is deduced to have taken place, they could 
have a source more accessible than the Northwest District for trade. 
The attempt to reconstruct the history of the Abary Phase prior 
to this period of Mabaruma Phase contact is hampered by the general 
absence of detailed archeological information from the surrounding 
area. The pottery shows no similarity to that of the Taruma Phase 
on the upper Essequibo or the Rupununi Phase on the Rupununi 
savanna. The situation to the east is not much better. Peter 
Goethals, who did fieldwork in Dutch Guiana in 1951 under the 
auspices of Yale University, kindly allowed us to make a preliminary 
classification of his sherds. Three sites in the vicinity of Paramaribo 
produced a complex of pottery in which sherd tempering was pre- 
dominant. Associated were a few sherds with cariapé or sand temper, 
and even more rarely with shell temper. These frequencies are most 
similar to those prevailing at the end of the Abary Phase sequence 
and consequently if any relationship exists it must be with the terminal 
rather than the initial portion of the Phase. 
The only remaining direction to look for affiliations is northwest. 
The presence of trade sherds of Mabaruma Phase origin at the earliest 
Abary Phase site has already been used to demonstrate communica- 
tion between the two groups. The question now arising is how this 
was initiated. The conclusion that it happened during the passage of 
the Abary Phase through the Northwest District is supported not only 
by the absence of any evidence that the Abary Phase came from any 
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