TY - BOOK ID - 77872807 TI - Languages of the pre-Columbian Antilles AU - Granberry, Julian AU - Vescelius, Gary S PY - 2004 SN - 0817381910 9780817381912 0817314164 9780817314163 0817314164 081735123X 9780817314163 9780817351236 PB - Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press DB - UniCat KW - Taino language KW - Indians of the West Indies KW - Arawakan languages KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Languages. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77872807 AB - A linguistic analysis supporting a new model of the colonization of the Antilles before 1492. This work formulates a testable hypothesis of the origins and migration patterns of the aboriginal peoples of the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico), the Lucayan Islands (the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and the Crown Colony of the Turks and Caicos), the Virgin Islands, and the northernmost of the Leeward Islands, prior to European contact. Using archaeological data as corroboration, the authors synthesize evidence that has been available in scattered l ER -