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The earliest arrival of people in the islands now known as The Bahamas was in the first millennium AD. The first inhabitants of the islands were the Lucayans, an Arawakan language-speaking Taino people, who arrived between about 500 and 800 AD from other.
The Lucayan people ( / luːˈkaɪən / loo-KY-ən) were the original residents of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands before the European colonisation of the Americas. They were a branch of the Taínos who inhabited most of the Caribbean islands at the time. The Lucayans were the first Indigenous Americans encountered by Christopher Columbus.
The Bahamas, known for an underwater kaleidoscope of marine life as well as endemic birds and reptiles, were also originally home to the Lucayans (pronounced lu-KIE-ans). The first people of the islands are a vanished civilization, an indigenous people about which precious little is known.
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2024年1月11日 · HISTORY. How Archaeologists Are Unearthing the Secrets of the Bahamas’ First Inhabitants. Spanish colonizers enslaved the Lucayans, putting an end to their lineage by 1530. Sean Kingsley....
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As early as 300 to 400 AD, people who came from what is now Cuba (there was no country named Cuba at that time) lived on The Islands Of The Bahamas and relied on the ocean for food. From around 900-1500 AD the Lucayan people settled here.
2021年4月26日 · Credit: Pete van Hengstum. When humans first arrived on the shores of what is now the Bahamas, they must have been greeted by giant tortoises, crocodiles, waving palms, and hardwoods like...
4 天前 · The Bahamas, archipelago and country on the northwestern edge of the West Indies. Formerly a British colony, The Bahamas became an independent country within the Commonwealth in 1973. The name Bahamas is of Lucayan Taino ( Arawakan) derivation, although some historians believe it is from the Spanish bajamar, meaning “shallow water.”.
