Cave-dwelling hunter-fisher people of far-western Cuba, distinct from the Taíno.
Extinct by the late 1500s, leaving almost no historical record.
Surveys the pre-contact peoples of the Greater Antilles, including the non-Taíno hunter-fishers of western Cuba (broad regional context, not Guanahatabey-specific).
Frames the pre-Columbian Americas and the demographic collapse that left peoples like the Guanahatabey almost without record.
Primary source by a witness to the conquest of Cuba; Las Casas was present and describes the decimation of the Taíno of Cuba firsthand. Essential primary document for this record.
Wilson's volume covers the Guanahatabey as the pre-Taíno, non-Arawakan inhabitants of western Cuba; essential comparative context for this distinctive group.
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