Pre-ceramic hunter-gatherer people who originated near the Orinoco delta and were established on Trinidad by at least 5500 BC, later migrating through the Lesser Antilles as far as Puerto Rico.
Displaced by the incoming ceramic Saladoid people from around 400 BC in most regions, though the related Coroso subculture in Puerto Rico persisted to roughly 200 AD.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Ortoiroid — the shape you scrub through changes in 5500 BC · 2000 BC · 1500 BC · 400 BC.
Standard reference on Caribbean pre-Taino cultural sequences, including the Ortoiroid.
Recent synthesis of Caribbean pre-Columbian archaeology covering the Archaic-age Ortoiroid and Casimiroid.
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