Guyana: Lost Cities of the Arawaks – Neil L. Whitehead

Recent Amazonian Archaeology

In contrast to earlier models and methods of Amazonian archaeology which emphasized such issues as agricultural origins of plants, or the analyses of ceramic series as ciphers for population dispersion. More recent research has begun to attend to historical and ethnographic populations, the spatial patterning of settlements and landscapes, and the process of cultural diaspora,long-distance trade and forms of agricultural intensification.

Diplomatic Minutes in Making of South American History – by Odeen Ishmael

“The Trail of Diplomacy” is Odeen Ishmael’s illuminating, educational and exciting reading – vital to understanding international diplomacy as a mover of history”.

Author Odeen Ishmael’s contribution to international diplomacy and South American history comes in the form of a book on the Guyana-Venezuela border issue that started in 1840. Guyana today is much less powerful than its neighbor Venezuela, but not at the time of the boundary dispute. Guyana was then British Guiana, a colonial territory of Great Britain.