Vocabulary
What is a petroglyph
Petroglyphs are rock carvings (rock paintings are called pictographs) made by pecking directly on the rock surface using a stone chisel and a hammerstone.
What was the name of the beer drank by the Caribs
Ouicou
The earliest known period for V.I. history
Pre-Ceramic Period
Guinea Current
The continent from which the Tainos came to the Caribbean
What is South America
What is archeologist
the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
The women did the _______ in the village
What is planting
The only legacy left for the late ceramic indians
The Carina mountain
Africans drawings were found were in the Virgin Islands
St.John Reef Bay Valley
The Tainos used this type of transport to travel to the Caribbean
What are Canoes
What is Artifacts?
ancient tools and objects linked to the past
Name the red dye that came from crushed annatto seeds
roucou
What was the fate of the natives?
No one knows for sure but the idea was that the V.I.indians were killed or driven to south and were confined to dominca and St.Vincent
The ancient egyptians made ships capable of crossing the Atlantic, What was it called/ made of?
Papyrus
What were the three periods that they divided the pre columbian era in the VI in?
ceremonial
relating to or used for formal events of a religious or public nature.
What was the term Tainos had for the Caribs?
Caribas
Where is the original home of the Caribs?
Xingu River in South America
Tainos were excellent at this activity that provided crops for them we still practice this today
What is agriculture or farming
What did the caribs sometimes to do the tainos
Eat them
What is epigraphy
study of ancient words
What is the term for cultures that existed before pottery
Pre-ceramic natives
With the term pre ceramic, and late ceramic. What does the term ceramic refer to
Ceramic is a type of pottery, and their level of skill with the ceramics is what defined the era
What is the hull bay controversy?
The hull bay find was that they found two skeletons that were of African Descent
What fruits did the Caribs Cultivate
cassava