Pre-Colombian Jamaica: Caribbean Archeology and Ethnohistory

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ent, and if so all the other sites mentioned would also have been farther from
the high water mark than they are now. In 1980, Lee recognized two caves as
Redware sites, Parchment (EC5) and Baalbec (EC10). He remarked that they
were known to have had “human bones in close association with Redware potsherds.”
Likewise at Bull Savannah #2 (EC12) he noted that some elements of
the pottery were “distinctly Redware style but without the red colouring” (AJ
1968, 3:1). These pieces are in the Lee Collection, but there are traces of White
Marl style material as well, hence one cannot be sure of the human bones context
at this site.
Altogether 16 middens and three caves have been recorded as Redware sites
in the CD- ROM. The Lee Collection includes at least some material from all
these sites, except for Paradise Park. Some of the collections from individual
sites are apparently homogeneous; others include an admixture of later prehistoric
and historic artifacts. The most abundant material comes from Alligator
Pond River (E5), Bottom Bay (M4), and Calabash Bay (E11). Fourth in line is
Great Pedro Bay (E4), which may be taken as an example of how this material
appears in terms of total statistics and in terms of the attributes recorded in the
Decorative Techniques Table (see Figure 9). Altogether the collection includes
297 ceramic pieces; five stone celts; and 19 chert flakes, cores, and chunks, as
well as two historic items. Of the 153 rim sherds and 92 body sherds, 23 and 13
respectively have characteristic red slip; a further five are red slip and combined
(with grooving, incision, or perforation). Of the 29 lugs (both independent and
otherwise) 11 are red slip and combined. There are 28 handles, counted independently,
and six on rims, which do not have red slip. They include several of
Lee’s numbered types. There are 16 fragments of griddles and one fragment of
a ceramic disk, which may have been a spindle whorl. Excluding the last two
items, the proportion of red- slipped ware in relation to the total is 17 percent.
Twenty vessel shapes could be reconstructed, including 13 restricted carinate,
five restricted simple, one unrestricted simple, and one restricted inflected. This
material is illustrated in the CD- ROM at the entry for Great Pedro Bay (E4.1–
12). The characteristics of the assemblage are also summarized in diagrammatic
form at Figure 21. Collected material can never equal in quality that
which has been systematically excavated, but this material is certainly instructive
in terms of what can be expected of artifacts at a Redware site.
Montego Bay
The Montego Bay style was first distinguished by Howard, as outlined in Chapter
2, mainly on the basis of the material from Fairfield (J3) (Howard 1950,