Archaeologists Debunk Colonial Settlers' Claim That Caribbean's Indigenous Inhabitants Were 'Cannibals'
Published 25 April 2018
by Mision Verdad
“I started studying the Caribs because I couldn’t believe the history I was reading,†Carlyn Valmond told the Guardian.
A group of archaeologists and researchers have taken up the challenge of disproving a centuries-old colonial settlers' account of a man-eating indigenous tribe inhabiting the Caribbean and claims stating they exterminated the regions earliest inhabitants, who were peaceful farmers.
The archaeologists excavating a 12-acre site in Indian Creek in Antigua have said new evidence uncovered in the region could be the key to correcting the “speculative and erroneous†age-old narrative handed down from early colonists.
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