Early horticulturalists of the southern Caribbean

Antczak, Andrzej T.; Haviser, Jay B.; Hoogland, Menno L. P.; Boomert, Arie; Dijkhoff, Raymundo A. C. F.; Kelly, Harold J.; Antczak, Ma. Magdalena; Hofman, Corinne L.

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“…Alternatively, it has been suggested that the new settlers first reached Puerto Rico, bypassing the Lesser Antilles, before expanding southward (8). Whichever way this expansion took place, it seems likely that the newcomers encountered indigenous communities in the islands, but the nature of their interactions is unclear (9).…”

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Genomic insights into the early peopling of the Caribbean

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The Caribbean was one of the last regions of the Americas to be settled by humans, but how, when, and from where they reached the islands remains unclear. We generated genome-wide data for 93 ancient Caribbean islanders dating between 3200-400 cal. BP and find evidence of at least three separate dispersals into the region, including two early dispersals into the Western Caribbean, one of which seems connected to radiation events in North America. This was followed by a later expansion from South America. We also detect genetic differences between the early settlers and the newcomers from South America with almost no evidence of admixture. Our results add to our understanding of the initial peopling of the Caribbean and the movements of Archaic Age peoples in the Americas.

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Genomic insights into the early peopling of the Caribbean

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“…Other Venezuelan coastal sites with archaeological evidence of Arawakan settlements have been reported with howler remains at Palmasola, El Cuartel, and Puerto Santo (Sýkora, 2006; Urbani et al, 2021; Vargas‐Arenas, 1979). The Saladoid and Barrancoid peoples occupied the Orinoco River basin between 600 BCE–AD 1100 and 1000 BCE–AD 600, respectively (Arroyo et al, 1999), the latter from ancestors that might be traced to the Early Holocene (Antczak et al, 2018). This Arawakan culture eventually migrated to northern Venezuela around AD 200 and lived there until AD 800–900, or even longer in the Caribbean coastal site of Taborda (Antczak & Antczak, 1999; Antczak et al, 2017; Cruxent & Rouse, 1958).…”

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Pre‐Hispanic howler monkeys from two sites of northern Venezuela and the Orinocan connection: An archaeoprimatological study

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Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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Skeletal fragments of ursine howler monkeys (Alouatta, A. cf. arctoidea) recovered from two archaeological sites in northern Venezuela are discussed in this article. Osteological remains, material culture evidence, and historical records are put together using an archaeoprimatological approach in order to investigate the relationships between the pre‐Hispanic human societies in this region of South America and this primate taxon. The remains of howler monkeys studied suggest that Indigenous peoples of Arawakan linguistic affiliation of Orinocan origin interacted with nonhuman primates in northern Venezuela before AD 800. This interaction encompasses different meanings: the howler as a possible pet or hunting prey and thus a source of food, and the howler as a reference with symbolic value.

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“…While the archaeological landscapes of preconquest gold extraction on Hispaniola remain little known, the southeastern Caribbean provides an instance where we can directly trace the ways that Indigenous resource routes were dramatically disrupted by the early colonial Spanish networks of pearling enclaves and staging points for entradas into the South American mainland. Recent archaeological investigations in the region have revealed a material record of the dynamic late precolonial circuits of local and interregional exchange across the region (Antczak et al 2018; Biord Castillo and Arvelo 2007). We focus here on one of these precolonial maritime routes—the so-called botuto route—and its early colonial transformations (Figure 3).…”

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Indigenous Routes and Resource Materialities in the Early Spanish Colonial World: Comparative Archaeological Approaches

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The early colonial period witnessed new scales of connectivity and unprecedented projects of resource extraction across the Spanish Americas. Yet such transformations also drew heavily on preexisting Indigenous landscapes, technologies, and institutions. Drawing together recent discussions in archaeology and geography about mobility and resource materialities, this article takes the early colonial route as a central object of investigation and contributes to new emerging interpretive frameworks that make sense of Spanish colonialism in the Americas as a variable, large-scale, and materially constituted process. Using three case studies—the ruta de Colón on the island of Hispaniola, the routes connecting the southeastern Caribbean islands with mainland South America, and the ruta de la plata in the south-central Andes—we develop a comparative archaeological analysis that reveals divergent trajectories of persistence, appropriation, and erasure in the region's routes and regimes of extraction and mobility during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

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Early horticulturalists of the southern Caribbean

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Genomic insights into the early peopling of the Caribbean

Genomic insights into the early peopling of the Caribbean

Pre‐Hispanic howler monkeys from two sites of northern Venezuela and the Orinocan connection: An archaeoprimatological study

Indigenous Routes and Resource Materialities in the Early Spanish Colonial World: Comparative Archaeological Approaches

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