The colonization of the Bahama archipelago
A reappraisal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3919478 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Jane Berman (Wake Forest University), Perry L Gnivecki (0000-0001-8234-7996, Wake Forest University) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 421-441 |
| Publication date | 1995-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00438243.1995.9980285 |
| OpenAlex | W2087834876 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 27 |
A number of colonization models have been proposed to explain the prehistoric peopling of the Bahamas archipelago from the Greater Antilles. Each varies in respect to place of origin, timing of migration and settlement, routes of movement, intentionality, settlement permanency and causal agents. The paper summarizes the evidence for each of the models. A new model which suggests that late Ostionan Ostionoid people from northern Cuba colonized the central Bahama archipelago circa ad 600–900 is presented. This model incorporates the articulation of palaeoclimatic push factors, economic pull factors, ease of transport factors and shallow bank navigation
Archaeology · Archipelago · Articulation (sociology · Colonization · Geography · Prehistory · Settlement (finance · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
Colonial Encounters in Lucayan Contexts
The North–South Conveyor Belt Model
The Pre-Columbian Caribbean
The Archaeology of the Caribbean
Stone carvings from the Lucayan archipelago
Absolute and relative dating of human remains in a Bahamian sinkhole (Great Cistern, Abaco)
Production of Greater Antillean pottery and its exchange to the Lucayan Islands
Palmetto Ware Pottery of the Lucayan Islands
Similarity and Diversity in the Prehistoric Colonization of Islands and Coasts by Food-Producing Communities
Bahamian hutia ( Geocapromys ingrahami ) in the Lucayan Realm
Catalytic Environments
Issues on the Diversity and Emergence of Middle-Range Societies of the Ancient Caribbean
West Indian Archaeology. 3. Ceramic Age
The paleoecology and extinction of endemic tortoises in the Bahamian Archipelago
Lucayan charred wood selection patterns
Crop Dispersal and Lucayan Tool Use
West Indian archaeology. 2. After Columbus
Cruise Ships, Community, and Collective Memory at Millars Plantation, Eleuthera, Bahamas
Paternal lineages signal distinct genetic contributions from British Loyalists and continental Africans among different Bahamian islands
Global Patterns in Island Colonization during the Holocene
The Prehistoric Settlement Pattern of San Salvador, Bahamas
Impressions of a Lost Technology
Materializing Memory and Building Community
Grenada and the Guianas
Lucayan-Taíno burials from Preacher's cave, Eleuthera, Bahamas
At the Crossroads
Plants, People, and Culture in the Prehistoric Central Bahamas
Form and Function of Bipolar Lithic Artifacts from the Three Dog Site, San Salvador, Bahamas
Prehistoric migration in the Caribbean
Remote cays and the pre-Columbian colonisation of The Bahamas
The Role of Small Islands in Marine Subsistence Strategies
Migrations in Prehistory
We, the Navigators
The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific
Reconstruction of Caribbean climate change over the past 10,500 years
Colonization of Islands by Humans
The Tainos
The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493
Prehistoria de Cuba
The Diario of Christopher Columbus’s First Voyage to America, 1492-1493
A theory of migration
A Location Theory for Rural Settlement
The People Who Discovered Columbus
The Retreat from Migrationism
The Human Ecology of Tropical Land Settlement in Latin America
The Caribbean as Columbus Saw It
Migrations in New World Culture History
Island Carib Origins
Bahamas Prehistory
The Cultural Position of the Bahamas in Caribbean Archaeology
Migration in Archeology
The Evolution of Avunculocal Chiefdoms
Lucayan Artifacts From the Bahamas
Lucayan Remains on the Caicos Islands
Human Colonisation and Change in the Remote Pacific
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,03 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2025 (30) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |