Crawling out of history: The Grand Turk tortoise
My Hero by Billy Collins Just as the hare is zipping across the finish line, the tortoise has stopped once…
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Not a pot to ‘cook’ in
Irving Rouse, the doyen of Caribbean archaeology, once estimated that pottery comprised 90% of all artifacts found in the region….
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A new look at kinship
The Florida Museum’s Bill Keegan, curator of Caribbean Archaeology, co-authored a paper asking bioarchaeologists to reevaluate traditional assumptions about kinship…
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Mother Sea Turtle
An archaeological site in the Caribbean provides prehistoric evidence of overhunting green sea turtles. The Cayman Islands, just south of…
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Catch of the day
Contrary to our current dilemma, the Taino always knew where their fish came from “Here, the fishes are so unlike…
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Bahamas’ first national heritage park
Nestled in a dry tropical forest on the western shores of New Providence Island the Clifton plantation has for centuries…
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Along the perimeter fence: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
The Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is the oldest U.S. military installation on foreign soil. It was established at…
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St. Lucia bypassed during initial settlement of the Anitilles
To the west stretched the vast expanse of the Caribbean Sea; to the north rose the magnificent Pitons, the symbol…
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