Caribbean and Bahamas
Due to apparent disparities between archaeological, linguistic and radiometric evidence, the historical anthropology of the Bahamas, and the Caribbean region in general, remains uncertain. It is generally understood that the Caribbean was settled in waves, first by peoples originating in Central and South America, and later by peoples originating in Western Europe and Africa, and that each wave of immigrants replaced or displaced extant populations by some combination of diffusion, assimilation, brutal conquest, slavery and disease.