Lucayan (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matt OMansky. Thomas Delvaux.

More than three dozen prehistoric sites exist on San Salvador Island, Bahamas. These consist of small settlements and work areas of the indigenous Lucayans. One of these sites, the Fresh Lake site (SS-7), has been the focus of research by Youngstown State University archaeologists each December since 2012. No clear signs of habitation have yet been found, although over 100 shell beads, along with pottery, shell tools, and shells and fish bones, have been recovered. In this paper, the nature of...