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Dr. Arie Boomert Lecture on Saladoid Migrations

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Saladoid: The Arawakan movement from the South American mainland into the Caribbean archipelago

Dr. Arie Boomert is one of the leading senior archaeologists working in the Caribbean today. He gave a lecture on his views of the earliest Ceramic Age (Neolithic) Saladoid migrations into the Caribbean islands from mainland South America. Dr. Boomert is a professor emeritus with the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Watch a recording of the lecture here: Saladoid: The Arawakan movement from the South American mainland into the Caribbean archipelago