The Caribbean's first farmers: 7,000-year-old settlements unearthed at Avocat – Repeating Islands

This article by Richard Charan appeared in Trinidad and Tobago's Express. WHILE modern-day Trinidadians squabble over the issues of the New World's European rediscovery five centuries ago and the plantation economy from which we all emerged, here is a reminder that every last one of us is a descendant of migrants who arrived in a place…

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