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The White Marl settlement was an essential resource for early Taino communities. The village of Maima is positioned on top of a hillside above the coastal plain. Research from 2014 and 2015 introduces that through leveled platforms and artificial terraces for house construction, the Taino people were able to achieve this settlement.
The Lokono Artists Group. Historically, the group self-identified and still identifies as 'Lokono-Arawak' by the semi fluent speakers in the tribe, or simply as 'Arawak' (by non speakers of the native tongue within the tribe) and strictly as 'Lokono' by tribal members who are still fluent in the language, because in their own language they call themselves 'Lokono' meaning 'many people' (of ...
The Caribbean Island of Jamaica was initially inhabited in approximately 600 AD or 650 AD by the Redware people, often associated with redware pottery. [1] [2] [3] By roughly 800 AD, a second wave of inhabitants occurred by the Arawak tribes, including the Tainos, prior to the arrival of Columbus in 1494. [1]
The Arawak are a group of Indigenous peoples of northern South America and of the Caribbean.The term "Arawak" has been applied at various times to different Indigenous groups, from the Lokono of South America to the Taíno (Island Arawaks), who lived in the Greater Antilles and northern Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.
Liguanea (/ ˈ l ɪ ɡ ə n iː / LIG-ə-nee) is an area of the island of Jamaica.Its name came from the language of the Arawak people [1] who currently inhabit some of the island's rural areas in Cornwall County.
Around 950 AD, the people of the Meillacan culture settled on both the coast and the interior of Jamaica, either absorbing the Ostionoid people or co-inhabiting the island with them. [1] The Arawak–Taíno culture developed on Jamaica around 1200 AD. [3] They brought from South America a system of raising yuca known as "conuco."
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Ancient relics date the island's first settlers, probably the Ciboney (a subgroup of Arawaks), back to 3,500 years ago. [citation needed] Then another group of Arawaks migrated from South America's Orinoco basin around 800 A.D. [citation needed] Because of St. Martin's salt-pans they called it "Soualiga," or "Land of Salt."