The Lucayans of the Taino people becomes the first inhabitants of the Bahamas
The first inhabitants of the Bahamas were the Lucayans, an Arawakan-speaking Taino people, who arrived between about 500 and 800 C.E. from other islands of the Caribbean.
Caribbean
Saladoid culture thrives in modern-day Venezuela and the Caribbean
Saladoid culture is a pre-Columbian indigenous culture of territory in present-day Venezuela and the Caribbean that flourished from 500 B.C.E. to 545 C.E. Concentrated along the lowlands of the Orinoco River, the people migrated by sea to the Lesser Antilles, and then to Puerto Rico.
Humans arrive on and settle the island of Hispaniola
For at least 5,000 years before Christopher Columbus discovered America for the Europeans, the island, which he named Hispaniola, was inhabited by indigenous peoples whom he called “Indians.”
Early Cubans develop Levisa, the first known human settlement on the island
The oldest known Cuban archeological site, Levisa, dates from approximately 3100 B.C.E. A wider distribution of sites date from after 2000 B.C.E.
Humans settle Antigua for the first time
Antigua was first settled by archaic age hunter-gatherer Amerindians called the Ciboney. Carbon dating has established the earliest settlements started around 3100 B.C.E.
Humans discover and settle Cuba
Cuba’s earliest known human inhabitants colonized the island in the 4th millennium B.C.E.