Plate VE - Perforated Prehistoric Ornaments Of Curaçao And Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

Curaçao And Bonaire: Prehistoric ceramic and lithic beads: a-d, untempered clay beads; e, tempered ceramic-sherd bead; f, calcite bead; g, quartz bead preform; h-i, red jasper preform and bead. All surface-collected at the De Savaan site, Curaçao. Photo by J. Haviser.https://surface.syr.edu/beads-gallery_vol2/1018/thumbnail.jp

Plate VG - Perforated Prehistoric Ornaments Of Curaçao And Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

Curaçao And Bonaire: Prehistoric shell beads (a, b, d, e) and earplugs (c, f) surface-collected at the De Savaan site, Curaçao. Photo by J. Haviser.https://surface.syr.edu/beads-gallery_vol2/1020/thumbnail.jp

Perforated Prehistoric Ornaments Of Curaçao And Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

This paper describes some of the more distinctive characteristics of perforated prehistoric ornaments, primarily beads and pendants, found on the Caribbean islands of Curaçao and Bonaire. The production and stylization of these ornaments is briefly compared between the islands, as well as with specimens recovered from sites on the South American mainland

Plate VF - Perforated Prehistoric Ornaments Of Curaçao And Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

Curaçao And Bonaire: Prehistoric zoomorphic shell artifacts (a-c) and shell nose-ring (d) from archaeological excavations at Wanápa, Bonaire. Photo by J. Haviser.https://surface.syr.edu/beads-gallery_vol2/1019/thumbnail.jp

Archaeological investigations at Colonial cemeteries on Guadeloupe. African slave site or not?

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Genome-wide ancestry of 17th-century enslaved Africans from the Caribbean

Between 1500 and 1850, more than 12 million enslaved Africans were transported to the New World. The vast majority were shipped from West and West-Central Africa, but their precise origins are largely unknown. We used genome-wide ancient DNA analyses to investigate the genetic origins of three enslaved Africans whose remains were recovered on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin. We trace their origins to distinct subcontinental source populations within Africa, including Bantu-speaking groups from northern Cameroon and non-Bantu speakers living in present-day Nigeria and Ghana. To our knowledge, these findings provide the first direct evidence for the ethnic origins of enslaved Africans, at a time for which historical records are scarce, and demonstrate that genomic data provide another type of record that can shed new light on long-standing historical questions.No Full Tex