1938
1938: Anthropologist José Imbelloni proposed that the native inhabitants of the West Indies belonged to a distinct Amazonid race.
1938: Anthropologist José Imbelloni proposed that the native inhabitants of the West Indies belonged to a distinct Amazonid race. He traced their biological ancestry from the Amazon Basin through the Orinoco Valley into the Caribbean islands.
Source · p. 27-28
Rouse, The Tainos, 27-28