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Creating the Guanahatabey (Ciboney): the modern genesis of an extinct culture

1989; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 63; Issue: 239 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0003598x00076109

1745-1744

William F. Keegan,

Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies

It is common knowledge that the West Indies were inhabited by three cultures at the time of European contact—the Island Caribs, the Tainos and the Ciboney – identified largely from the accounts of Spanish and French explorers and chroniclers. Is this knowledge accurate? This evaluation of evidence for the Guanahatabey (‘Ciboney’) of western Cuba and southwestern Haiti finds they did not survive until the time of European contact.