The People who Discovered Columbus

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The People who Discovered Columbus is written by William F. Keegan and published by Columbus Quincentenary Series. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 081301137X (ISBN 10) and 9780813011370 (ISBN 13).

Keegan's terms his approach paleoethnography, developing a portrait of the past by linking archaeological field data and historical documents. The result, the first overview of the prehistory of the Bahamas, explains how and why the Bahamas were colonized by the Tainos almost 1,400 years ago. The portrait includes characteristics of the islands themselves, descriptions of how the Lucayan made their settlements, what they ate, how they organized in social groups, and how.