Editing History of Barbados (section)

==Before colonization==
Some evidence suggests that Barbados may have been settled in the second millennium BC, but this is limited to fragments of conch lip [[adzes]] found in association with shells that have been radiocarbon-dated to about 1630 BC.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Drewett |first=Peter |date=1993 |title=Excavations at Heywoods, Barbados, and the Economic Basis of the Suazoid Period in the Lesser Antilles |journal=Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society |volume=38 |pages=113–137}}; {{Cite journal |first=Scott M. |last=Fitzpatrick |title=A critical approach to c14 dating in the Caribbean |journal=Latin American Antiquity |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=389 ff}}</ref>

Fully documented [[Amerindian]] settlement dates to between about 350 and 650 AD, when the Troumassoid people arrived. The arrivals were a group known as the [[Saladoid]]-Barrancoid from the mainland of South America.<ref name="Watson">{{Cite book |last=Watson |first=Karl |title=Barbados: Just Beyond Your Imagination |date=1970 |publisher=Hansib |isbn=978-1-8705-1854-3 |editor-last=Ali |editor-first=Arif |pages=30–34 |chapter=A Brief History of Barbados |ol=28145358M}}</ref>

The second wave of settlers appeared around 800 AD (the Spanish referred to these as "[[Arawak people|Arawaks]]") and a third in the mid-13th century. However, the Amerindian settlement surprisingly came to an end in the early 16th century. There's no evidence that the [[Kalinago]] (called "[[Island Caribs|Caribs]]" by the Spanish) ever established a permanent settlement in Barbados, though they often visited the island in their canoes.{{Sfn|Watson|1970|pp=30–38}}