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Due to the close proximity of numerous Caribbean Islands to each other, first interpretations of Pre-Columbian seafaring and migration were based on a stepping-stone model. This model stated that human groups entered the islands close to the mainland, after which people moved to other islands increasingly distant from the continental landmasses ...
Reenactment of a Viking landing in L'Anse aux Meadows. Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that visits to the Americas, interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, or both, were made by people from elsewhere prior to Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492. [1]
The Ship Sarcophagus: a Phoenician ship carved on a sarcophagus, 2nd century AD.. The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC.
This article covers the history of Antigua and Barbuda from the end of the Pre-Columbian period in 1493 to 1687. During this era, the first African slaves were brought to Antigua and Barbuda, and the native population was driven to near-extinction.
The presence of flint from Antigua on many other Caribbean Islands highlights the importance of this material during the Pre-Contact period. [ 17 ] The period from 650 to 800 CE saw major cultural, socio-political and ritual reformulations, which took place both on the mainland and in many Caribbean islands. [ 18 ]
Seafaring in the Pre-Columbian Caribbean This page was last edited on 3 April 2024, at 21:30 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Seafaring in the Pre-Columbian Caribbean This page was last edited on 4 August 2020, at 02:15 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Pages in category "Pre-Columbian cultural areas" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. ... Seafaring in the Pre-Columbian Caribbean;