Editing Aruba (section)

==== Agriculture, trade, and network ====
The Caquetío people probably used a [[shifting cultivation]] farming method, also known as [[slash-and-burn]].<ref>Versteeg, A.; Ruiz, A.C. (1995). ''Reconstructing Brasil Wood Island: the archaeology and landscape of Indian Aruba''. Aruba: Publications of the Archaeological Museum, no. 6.</ref> The yields from agriculture and fishing were supplemented by engaging in trade of raw materials and artifacts that were not locally available or producible. Sixteenth century sources indicate that the Caquetíos traded in, among other things, salt, canoes, tobacco, and beads.<ref>Boerstra, E. (1982). ''De precolumbiaanse bewoners van Aruba, Curaçao en Bonaire''. Zutphen: De Walberg Pers.</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Versteeg |first=A.H. |url=https://archive.org/details/BNA-DIG-HARTOG-ARUBAANSAKKOORD/mode/1up |title=Arubaans Akkoord : Opstellen over Aruba van voor de komst van de olieindustrie |publisher=Stichting Libri Antiyani |year=1997 |edition=L. Alofs, W. Rutgers en H.E. Coomans |location=Bloemendaal |pages=89–102 |trans-title=Aruban Accord: Writings about Aruba from before the arrival of the oil industry |chapter=Pre-Columbian houses at Santa Cruz site |access-date=2023-04-29 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/BNA-DIG-HARTOG-ARUBAANSAKKOORD/page/88/mode/1up |url-access=registration}}</ref> The Leeward Caquetíos certainly did not live in isolation but formed outlying regions of a dynamic chiefdom with regional trading networks.<ref name=":02" />