c. 400 to 1000 CE · Indigenousspan
Antigua stops looking like everyone else after the Saladoid
›Read the full entryClose
On Antigua, the Royals site records a community changing its mind about what it was. The deposits include well preserved middens and traces of dwellings meant to stand for a season or more, left by people working the sea on one side and garden plots inland on the other. The site catches the shift out of the Saladoid arrangement into what followed it. Across the northeastern Caribbean at this time the broadly shared style that had linked settlements down the island chain begins breaking into local versions, with communities making pottery that says where it was made. The Royals material sits inside that trend. Identity was becoming a smaller and sharper thing, tied to an island and a village more than to a region. Sites like this are the reason the pre Columbian Caribbean can be discussed as a history with periods and turning points in it, instead of a static background waiting for 1492.
A code like HT-WIB-000044 is a bates number. It marks one page of our stamped scan of the book, so the same page can be found again by anyone working from the same copy. Open one to see every entry drawn from that page.