ABSTRACT
Factors that affect plant productivity from soil conditions to rainfall would have been of concern to the various prehistoric horticultural groups in the Caribbean. We argue that such concerns would have been manifested in different concrete and intangible forms, including the not-normally considered category of rock art. We suggest that the region’s petroglyphs, pictographs and portable carved figures reflect a magio-religious attempt at fertility controls—albeit rather tenuously—in the Archaic transitioning to a general expression in the Saladoid to certain specific images in the Ostionoid.
