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The Cultural Position of the Bahamas in Caribbean Archaeology*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Julian Granberry
Julian Granberry*
Affiliation:
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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This paper is concerned with the prehistory of the Bahama Islands, British West Indies, an archipelago stretching in a 600-mile arc from the southeast Florida coast opposite West Palm Beach to within 60 miles of the northern coasts of Cuba and Hispaniola (Fig. 1). The Turks and Caicos groups, although politically administered from Jamaica, belong both geologically and archaeologically in the archipelago and are therefore included in this report.

The purpose of the present survey is to clarify the relationships of pre-Columbian Bahamian culture to neighboring regions. Before any clarification can be made, however, it is first necessary to outline briefly the archaeological findings in the islands, for no complete survey has yet been published.

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American Antiquity , Volume 22 , Issue 2Part1 , October 1956 , pp. 128 - 134
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1956

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This paper was presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Bloomington, May 5-7, 1955.

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