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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

William F. Keegan
William F. Keegan*
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Florida Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville FL 32611, USA
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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.

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Antiquity , Volume 63 , Issue 239 , June 1989 , pp. 373 - 379
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1989

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