Who Came First
The first Virgin Islanders lived here nearly this many years ago.
What is 4,000 years ago?
The Taino people called St. Croix by this name.
What is Ay-Ay?
Taino houses were made using wooden poles, straw, and this material for their roofs.
What is palm thatch?
The name Pre-Ceramic tells us these people had not yet learned to make or use these objects.
What are clay pots?
The Calina are also commonly known by this name in the chapter.
Who are the Caribs?
The first Virgin may have originally come from this continent.
What is South America?
This was the most important food crop grown by the Taino.
What is cassava/manioc?
Taino children learned skills and traditions primarily from these people.
Who are their mothers and fathers/parents?
Archaeologists found these two types of shells left behind by Pre-Ceramic people.
What are clam and conch shells?
The Calina lived in the Virgin Islands and this nearby island.
What is Puerto Rico?
Early people traveled north through this chain of Caribbean islands before reaching the Virgin Islands.
What are the Lesser Antilles?
Taino houses were arranged in a ring around this central community area.
What is the plaza?
Farming, swimming, carving, weaving, and this form of transportation-building were important Taino skills.
What is canoe-making?
Unlike the Pre-Ceramic people, the Pre-Taino people knew how to make these.
What are clay pots?
The large house in the center of a Calina village where men ate and slept was called this.
What is the carbet?
These early Virgin Islanders are sometimes called Ciboneys.
Who are the Pre-Ceramic people?
Name three crops, other than cassava, grown by Taino farmers.
What are any three of corn, sweet potatoes, beans, squash, peanuts, peppers, cotton, tobacco, or herbs?
According to the chapter, language, religion, music, art, dance, food, and customs are all parts of this.
What is culture?
The Pre-Taino people spoke a language called this.
What is Arawakan?
These smaller houses surrounding the carbet were where women and children lived.
What are adjoupas?
Archaeologists know Pre-Ceramic people lived at these two locations on St. Thomas because of objects they left behind.
What are Krum Bay and Magens Bay?
Taino trading canoes carried goods between communities. Name four items mentioned in the chapter.
What are any four of gold, wooden and ceramic bowls, food, cotton, parrots, spices, and salt?
Explain why canoes were especially important to TaÃno life in the Virgin Islands.
They allowed people to travel between islands, trade goods, fish, and maintain connections with other communities.
Over many years, the Pre-Taino developed into the people known by this name.
Who are the Taino?
The Calina painted their bodies with a red dye made from the crushed seeds of this plant.
What is annatto?