4000 B.C. (approx.): Casimiroid Indians from Middle America arrive in Cuba and on the island of Haiti, initiating the Lithic age on

4000 B.C. (approx.): Casimiroid Indians from Middle America arrive in Cuba and on the island of Haiti, initiating the Lithic age on the islands. These early settlers relied on stone tools and established the first human presence in the archipelago. Significance: Represents the first sustained human presence in the Greater Antilles. Nuance: Rouse stresses these were not “proto-Taínos.” They lacked pottery and agriculture; Taíno identity emerged much later through layered migrations and cultural transformation