Pre-Colombian Jamaica: Caribbean Archeology and Ethnohistory

8 / Petroglyphs and Pictographs
In his final account of Jamaica’s decorated caves, James Lee (1990) listed 24
such sites he had mapped on the island: 21 with petroglyphs alone, two with
both petroglyphs and pictographs, and one with pictographs alone. He had earlier
defined a petroglyph as a “rock carving executed either on a rock outcrop
or on a boulder of such size that it is obvious that the carving was done in situ,”
that is, these were not and had never been portable objects (AJ 1974, 4:1–4).
Pictographs were executed by painting rather than by incision. It should be
noted that other writers have suggested that both should be regarded as “lithographs”
(Roe 1991a), and indeed they share many features in common. The
sites, listed by parish, are as follows. Unless otherwise stated, they have petroglyphs
alone. Coventry (AC1), Milk River (CC1), Jackson Bay (CC2), Jackson
Bay East (CC6), God’s Well Junction #2 (CC10), Little Miller’s Bay (CC18),
Duff House (EC11), Warminster (EC15), Redbank (EC16), Reynold Bent
(EC19), Kempshot (JC1), Spot Valley Cave (JC7) (pictographs only), Canoe
Valley (MC1), Cuckold Point Cave (MC5), Gut River #1 (MC6), Mountain
River Cave (SC1) (petroglyphs and pictographs), River Head (Byndloss
Mt.) (SC2), Worthy Park #1 (SC6) (petroglyphs and pictographs), Two Sisters
Cave (SC7), Worthy Park #2 (SC10), Pantrepant West (TC1), Pantrepant East
(TC2), Negril Cave (WC2), and Dryland (YC1). In addition, Lee mentioned
four other sites he had been unable to find. One of them, Windsor (TC4), has
subsequently been located by Ivor Conolley, to whom thanks go for this information.
Originally noted by A. D. Lacaille in 1925, the petroglyph here is in
fact at the upper entrance to Windsor Great Cave, and consists of a carving on