Kalina people establish thriving coastal culture in northern South America
The Kalina people have lived along South America’s northern coast for roughly 2,000 years, trading from the Amazon to the Orinoco and shaping pottery polished with river stones carried home across long journeys. Archaeologists have mapped 273 sites in a small stretch of French Guiana alone — a reminder that the Caribbean’s name, and much of its story, began here.