Island networks: Transformations of inter-community social relationships in the Lesser Antilles at the advent of European colonialism

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Figure 1. Map of the Caribbean with inset of the southern Lesser Antilles showing the location of specific islands and sites discussed in the text (Map by Menno Hoogland).

Figure 2. Cayo ceramics showing (a) Meillacoid/Chicoid (Greater Antilles) influences and (b-g) Koriabo (mainland) (Figure by Menno Hoogland).

Figure 3. European wares encountered with Cayo materials at the sites of Argyle (b-f, i) and La Poterie (g,h, j-m)- (Figure by Menno Hoogland).

Figure 4. Bimodal temporal network where ceramics identified to their style are one node and pXRF identified clay groups are another. Line thickness represents number of times that a ceramic style was crafted using a pXRF clay group. Line shading indicates time period (Figure by Lewis Borck).

Figure 5. Bone artifacts from Kalinago archaeological assemblages from Grenada, sites of La Poterie (a, c, d, e) and Telescope Point (b) ( Figure by Catarina Guzzo Falci and Tom Breukel).

Figure 6. Technological and use wear traces on flutes and tooth pendants; (a) engraving through multiple incisions; (b) mouthpiece with V-shaped notch on the foreground and use wear visible behind it; (c) outline of a tone hole perforation; (d) perforation of LPG-1 with an oval shape, caused by deformation as a result of use: (e) perforation of LPG-2 with preserved technological features, notably concentric drilling traces; (f) perforation of LPG-3 markedly deformed by use (Figure by Tom Breukel and Catarina Guzzo Falci).

Figure 7. Chart of strontium and oxygen isotope values obtained from the dental enamel of mammalian tooth pendants from Grenada.

Table 1. Sample information and isotope results.

Lab ID	Site	Island	Modification	category	taxa	Element	^87Sr/^86Sr	δ^18Oca
T881	La Poterie	Grenada	Perforated	tapir	Tapirus terrestris	incisor	0.71319	−2.5
T882	La Poterie	Grenada	Perforated	tapir	Tapirus terrestris	canine	0.71012	−1.2
T883	La Poterie	Grenada	Perforated	peccary	Tayassuidae	incisor	0.71523	−5.6
U030	Pearls	Grenada	Perforated	jaguar	Panthera onca	Incisor	0.70853	−4.5

Figure 8. Route between Telescope Point, Grenada and southern Guyana in November. The path passes by the coast of Tobago (Figure by Emma Slayton, adapted from Slayton 2018: Figure 107).

Figure 9. Route between southern Guyana and La Poterie, Grenada modeled for November. The path meets the Trinidad coast close to the Ceramic Age site of Blanchisseuse (Figure by Emma Slayton, adapted from Slayton 2018: Figure 112).

Figure 10. Map of regions from this article whose people and their material culture (including technology and style) create the vast web of relationships and histories that formed the Lesser Antillean Kalinago (Figure by Lewis Borck and Maroussia Faber).

Slayton, E. R. 2018. Seascape corridors. Modeling routes to connect communities across the Caribbean Sea. Leiden: Sidestone Press.

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