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Casimiroid

Earliest known pre-ceramic settlers of the Greater Antilles (Cuba and Hispaniola), predating the Ortoiroid migration into the Lesser Antilles.

Succeeded in the Greater Antilles by later Archaic-age and eventually ceramic-using populations; the precise relationship to subsequent Antillean peoples is debated among archaeologists.

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Further reading

• The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus Irving Rouse · 1992

  Standard reference on Caribbean pre-Taino cultural sequences, including the Casimiroid.

• Caribbean Before Columbus William F. Keegan and Corinne L. Hofman · 2017

  Recent synthesis of Caribbean pre-Columbian archaeology covering the Archaic-age Casimiroid.

Sources

• Wikipedia, 'Ortoiroid people' ('They were preceded by the Casimiroid peoples (~4190-2165 BC)')
• Wikipedia, 'List of pre-Columbian cultures' ('Casimiroid culture, c. 5500-200 BC')
• Wikipedia, 'Caciques in Puerto Rico' (Casimiroid people arriving from Central America, succeeding an earlier c. 5000 BC Trinidad-derived group)