Pre History Of The Caribbean

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The content of this directory is a collection of articles written by various authors, historians and scholars on the indigenous people of the Caribbean, their cultural traditions and civilization Pre-history.  It also contains enlightened perspectives on the Caribbean pre-history and colonial history of the Caribbean.

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Brief Look At The Caribbean

The Caribbean people and cultures represents a dynamic and diverse Afro-Amerindian heritage and traditions that help to shape and define the Caribbean today.  Pre history explains the way of life in the Caribbean islands long before the arrival of Christopher Columbos.

Caribbean island populations date back about 7,000 years, as far as we know today. Those 7,000 years saw a changing panorama of varied cultures and different kinds of human interactions, which mostly took place before the arrival of Columbus and Western history.

The challenge of teaching that panorama is to counteract the static tendencies of descriptions by deliberate emphasis on the processes behind continual changes in the peoples and cultures of the islands.

Just as today the Caribbean is a marvel of diversity of peoples, of myriad forms of interactions, and even of changing ethnic identities and boundaries, so too it was at the time of European contact and back through time in prehistory.

At any time when humans have been in the Antillean islands there have been expeditions of exploration, migrations, long-distance relations with former homelands, trade between strangers, warfare between neighbors, rebellion within communities, adoption of outside innovations, and merging of cultures.

These are the universal cultural processes that will excite and stretch students' creative intellect. Browse the site for more details on the Caribbean pre history.

Author's Note:  The content of this page is a compilation of data from the centerlink. for Caribbean history, various websites, archives of universities, colleges and other sources.

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