'The Caribbean People\r'

'Saladoid gardening is a pre-columbian indigenous culture of Venezuela and the Caribbean that flourished from d BCE to 545 CE. [1] This culture is thought to take up originated at the decline Orinoco River near the modern settlements of Saladero and Barrancas in Venezuela. Seafaring spate from the lowland region of the Orinoco River of South America migrated into and launch settlements in the lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, and Hispaniola. [1] They displaced the pre-ceramic Ortoiroid culture. As a horticultural wad, they initially occupied wetter and more than than juicy islands that best accommodated their needs.These Indigenous peoples of the Americas were an Arawak-speaking culture. Between 500-280 BCE, they immigrated into Puerto Rico and the Lesser Antilles, eventually making up a monolithic portion of what was to become a single Caribbean culture. [edit]Culture Saladoid people are characterized by agriculture, ceramic production, and sedentary settlements. [1] Their queer and highly decorated pottery has enabled archaeologists to recognize their sites and to narrow their places of origin. Saladoid ceramics include zoomorphic effigy vessels, incense burners, platters, trays, jars, bowls with strap handles, and bell-shaped containers.The red pottery was painted with white, orange, and blackened slips. [1] Distinctive Saladoid artifacts are stone pendants, shaped like raptors from South America. These were made from a range of strange significants, including such as carnelian, turquoise, lapis lazuli, amethyst, crystal quartz, jasper-chalcedony, and fossilized wood. These were traded by dint of the Great and Lesser Antilles and the South American mainland, until 600 CE. [1] The Taino of the greater Antilles represented the last introduce of the Ostionoid cultural tradition.By slightly AD 1100-1200, the Ostionoid people of Hispaniola lived in a wider and more diverse geographic area than did their predecessors; their villages were larger and more formally arranged, farming was intensified, and a distinctive real culture developed. They developed rich and vibrant ritual and artistic traditions that are revealed in Taino craftsmanship in using bone, shell, stone wood and other media. accessible stratification is thought to have become more pronounced and rigid during this period as well. This stage of intensification and working out after AD 1100 is known as â€Å"Taino”.The Taino people, as characterized by archaeologists, were not a structured society, and have been categorized into subdivisions according to the degree of elaboration in their artistic and social expression. The Central or â€Å"Classic” Tainos are identified with the most composite plant and intensive traditions, and are represented archaeologically by â€Å"Chican-Ostionoid” framework culture. They occupied much of Hispaniola, including En Bas Saline. The â€Å"Western” Taino occupied central Cuba, Jamaica, and p arts of Hispaniola, and , are also associated archaeologically with the â€Å"Ostionoid-Meillacan” material tradition.The Lucayan Taino lived in the Bahamas, and the â€Å"Eastern” Taino are thought to have lived in regions of the Virgin Islands and the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles. As many archaeologists have emphasized, however, the Taino were but one of the perceptible cultural groups in the Caribbean at the time of contact. They co-existed and interacted with other Ostionan peoples and perhaps even Saladoid-influenced Archaic peoples, such as the Guanahatabey of Cuba and the Caribs of the Lesser Antilles.\r\n'