| The Arawaks who were food producers settled at Hosororo
Creek on the Aruka river around 3550 years ago. On the hilltop they planted
manioc (Manihot esculenta) which they baked into bread on ceramic griddles.
Arawaks also occupied the Corentyne river around 2000 years ago leaving
their unique type of rock engraving, timehri. Because of the rich supply
of protein along the coastal swamps, these Arawaks moved hundreds of tons
of earth with wooden shovels, to build habitation mounds and raised Fields
for farming |
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