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Little is known about Surinam’s pre-Columbian inhabitants. Cave sketches, the timehri, discovered near the Marowine and Corantine rivers reveal the former presence of Indian tribes whom ethnologists, on ethnic as well as other grounds, have traced to the Arawaks rather than to the more nomadic Caribs. Their kitchen-mounds are reminiscent of similar waste mounds foundamong the Toltecs of Mexico, although wether this apparent link is significant has yet to be determined.
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© 1979 Martinus Nijhoff, Publishers bv, The Hague
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Goslinga, C.C. (1979). The Wild Coast from pre-Columbian Times to 1621. In: A Short History of the Netherlands Antilles and Surinam. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9289-4_13
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