Category Archives: Amerindians in Barbados

1980    (F. W. Lange and J. S. Handler), The Archaeology of Mapp’s Cave: A Contribution to the Prehistory of Barbados. Jl. of theVirgin Islands Archaeological Society 9: 3-l7. We report on the limited prehistoric data recovered from a cave in … Continue reading →

1977    Amerindians and Their Contributions to Barbadian Life in the Seventeenth Century. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 35:189-210. This paper sketches what can be ascertained from limited documentary information about the way of life of Barbados’s small … Continue reading →

1970    Aspects of Amerindian Ethnography in 17th Century Barbados. Caribbean Studies 9: 50-72. An ethnohistorical study of the island’s small enslaved Amerindian population, focussing on material life and its possible influence on persons of European and African birth or descent.

1969    The Amerindian Slave Population in Barbados in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries. Caribbean Studies 8: 38-64. Shortly after Barbados was colonized in 1627, a small group of Amerindians from Guiana was brought to the island to teach the … Continue reading →