Caribbean Reexamination (image)

University of Oregon

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Students from the University of Oregon, North Carolina State University and University College London work at a Grand Bay cultural site on Carriacou Island, located in the Grenada Grenadines in the Lesser Antilles. A reexamination of radiocarbon dating from multiple islands of the Caribbean concludes that settlement by South American populations started to the north in the Greater Antilles rather in than in a step-by-step northward migration

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Photo by Scott Fitzpatrick

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