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Puerto Rico: Precolumbian pottery bowl
Incised pottery bowl (Tibes Museum; photo: Athena Review).
The
shallow pottery bowl shown here was found in a burial in Tibes, Puerto
Rico and dates from AD 300-600. The larger Caribbean islands including
Puerto Rico and Cuba (called the Greater Antilles) were settled by
Arawak-speaking tribes from South America from 100 BC onward who
brought both pottery and agriculture to the islands.
The
earliest pottery vessels in the Greater Antilles (called the Saladoid
tradition) have white-on-red negative painting and incised
organic forms. The subsequent Barrancoid tradition with broad-line
incision on smooth surfaces spread through the Antilles after about AD
700. Another tradition, called the Ostionoid, developed after AD 600 in
the Greater Antilles as a modified version of the Saladoid.
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