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Tuesday 28 April 2015

Languages of the Pre-Columbian Antilles

Languages of the Pre-Columbian Antilles

Written by Julian Granberry and Gary Vescelius
Publication Year: 2004
A linguistic analysis supporting a new model of the colonization of the Antilles before 1492.
This work formulates a testable hypothesis of the origins and migration patterns of the aboriginal peoples of the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico), the Lucayan Islands (the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and the Crown Colony of the Turks and Caicos), the Virgin Islands, and the northernmost of the Leeward Islands, prior to European contact. Using archaeological data as corroboration, the authors synthesize evidence that has been available in scattered locales for more than 500 years but which has never before be . . . show more

http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780817381912

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