Excavation work in Canimar Abajo, Cuba. Credit: Esteban Grau Gonzalez
Excavation work in Canimar Abajo, Cuba. Credit: Esteban Grau Gonzalez
“The examination of ancient DNA from 93 islanders who lived between 400 and 3200 years ago reveals a complex population history and ties to broader, inter-continental human expansions in both North and South America, according to an international research team...”
In other words, there were a series of murderous conquests...
....long before whitey showed up.
There are rock engravings in Georgia and Puerto Rico that are very similar.
The people who lived for thousands of years in the islands were called the Taino and Arawak.
The Carribs came later; that was the group who came up from South America. Probably from the Orinoco river and the part of Venezuela that is across from Trinidad.
These people were the “Cannibals”. The name is actually a European corruption of their word for themselves, the Carribs.
Of course, all of these waves of people respected each other’s culture. It wasn’t until Columbus came that massacres and genocide happened.... (sarc)
