A linguistic analysis supporting a new model of the colonization of the Antilles before 1492 This work formulates a testable hypothesis of the origins and migra

This volume brings together examples of the best research to address the complexity of the Caribbean past.

Taken from surviving contemporary documentary sources, the author describes the grammar and lexicon of the extinct 17th-century Timucua language of Central and

In South America indigenous languages are extremely diverse. There are over one hundred language families in this region alone. Contributors from around the wor

Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World; American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded the slave tr