The Peoples of the Caribbean: An Encyclopaedia of Archaeology and Traditional Culture

Although this work is published from the USA, the author is Reader in Material Culture, Department of Anthropology at University College, London. As well as being based in the UK, he has worked in Mexico, Argentina, Peru and the Caribbean. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the anthropology of South America and the Caribbean.

It is worth reading the introduction to this book which gives an overview of the Caribbean islands and their history. The first peoples to arrive on these islands probably did so between 5000‐4000BCE using seagoing canoes to transport themselves. Once Christopher Columbus...