CAT ISLAND

Introduction

Cat Island, one of the Bahama's, is long and small, the top of a mountain ridge when the sea levels were lower than in the present. Around it there are many smaller islands, rocks, breaking hardly through the water, making the island ideal for watersports. The pictures behind the thumbnails below are (besides the first three) from a divers site on a trip to the island. The authors' attention was first drawn to the pictures of the so-called long rocks, which have silhouettes reminding one of some of the silhouets from Marcahuasi (if you don't have them seen yet, please go first to the Peru Sculptures and Marcahuasi galleries). Further investigation turned up the images below. Though this is a selection, it is remarkable that many of the pictures below were indeed made, because one would think that subjects like "rocks" would not be very interesting to divers. However, apparently the features highlighted below had subconsciously drawn their attention.
 

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Analysis

The data from Cat Island should be treated with the utmost care. Because if proven, they show a cultural link between the finds in Peru and those in the Caribbean. Together with the toolmarks link shown in the Toolmarks gallery,  the existence of a common cultural background between these two sites becomes quite probable, and their is no known such link in the cultures we know off until now.

 

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