Caribbean Arawak Islands in the 1460s

Timeline

1. 1461–1465Bahamas and northern Windward Islands · BahamasThe Lucayan Arawak people occupied the Bahamas, sustaining scattered villages through fishing, gathering, and limited agriculture; Arawakan-speaking settlements were also distributed in the northern Windward Islands, and in the 1460s these island societies maintained cultural contact with the Taíno of the Greater Antilles.
2. 1463–1468Sea lanes among Caribbean islands · CaribbeanThe Arawak islands transported shell ornaments, stone axes, cotton textiles, and salt between island chains via large dugout canoes (canoa); in the 1460s the trade network linked the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles into an interconnected cultural and economic sphere.
3. 1465–1470Southern Lesser Antilles · Lesser AntillesThe Caribs (Kalinago) continued expanding northward from the southern Lesser Antilles; in the 1460s Arawak island societies in the southern islands faced military raids and population displacement pressure, forming an Arawak–Carib frontier zone that was already markedly in existence before 1492.