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Pictured below are vintage Jamaican images (1870 – 1890). Until the end of the 15th century, three different people lived in the Caribbean: the Ciboneys, the Taino Arawaks and the Karibs. It is to the latter that the region owes its name. Estimates concerning the size of the original population recorded vary from 300,00 to 6,000,000. The Arawaks were located primary in the Greater Antilles, the Bahamas, and some of the lesser Antilles Islands; the Karibs lived in the lesser Antilles; the Ciboneys had settled in the western part of Cuba and Haiti. The word “Antilles” itself derives from “Antillia”, the name of an imaginary Island that started appearing on maps as early as 1424.
