Suku Ortoiroid

Suku Ortoiroid adalah gelombang kedua pemukim manusia dari Karibia yang memulai bermigrasi ke Antilles sekitar 2000 SMGranberry, Julian & Vescelius, Gary. Languagues of the Pre-Columbian Antilles. The University of Alabama Press 2004. pp 39-40.Rouse, Irving. The Tainos: Rise & Decline of the People who Greeted Columbus. Yale University Press 1992. p. 81. Mereka didahului oleh sukku Casimiroid (~4190-2165 SM). Mereka diyakini berasal di lembah Orinoko di Amerika Selatan, bermigrasi ke Antilles dari Trinidad dan Tobago ke Puerto Rico. Nama "Ortoiroid" berasal dari Ortoire, situs kerangka kulit di Trinidad tenggara.Saunders 211

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 Referensi 
 Rodríguez Ramos, Reniel. Rethinking Puerto Rican Precolonial History. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010. .
 Rouse, Irving. The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People who greeted Columbus. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992. .
 Saunders, Nicholas J. The Peoples of the Caribbean: an Encyclopedia of Archeology and Traditional Culture. ABC-CLIO, 2005. .

 Bacaan lanjutan 
 Ferguson, James: Far From Paradise. Latin American Bureau, 1990. .
 Kurlansky, Mark. 1992. A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny. Addison-Wesley Publishing.
 Rogozinsky, Jan: A Brief History of the Caribbean. Plume, 1999. .

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