... prehistory, speculating about the colonizing of the Bahamas by the native Lucayans. He proposes the Lucayans’ social organization, subsistence strategy, and population, primarily on the basis of surface surveys of the middle and southern islands. One chapter discusses where Columbus made his initial landfall...

... revisits lingering questions about when the Bahamas were first settled and whether their Lucayan colonizers arrived from Hispaniola, Cuba, or South America. Noting significant differences in Lucayan lifeways from those of the Taíno communities of the Greater Antilles, Keegan proposes that Lucayans...

... into three parts, corresponding to the three principal migrations of peoples into the Bahamas: the Lucayans about A.D. 600, the early European settlers in the mid-seventeenth century, and the Loyalists and their slaves beginning in 1783. The last section is by far the best. Michael Craton and Gail Saunders...