c. AD 1000 – 1500 (Regional Interaction): The Lucayan population of the Bahamas is characterized by a “remotely local” social strategy.

c. AD 1000 – 1500 (Regional Interaction): The Lucayan population of the Bahamas is characterized by a “remotely local” social strategy. To overcome the lack of volcanic stone on their islands, they developed a robust exchange system that traded local salt and dried conch for high-quality stone celts and finished Chicoid pottery from the Greater Antilles. Keegan and Hofman argue that this interaction was a social necessity that kept the Lucayan “out islands” culturally synchronized with the more complex chiefdoms of Ayiti. This network ensured that even the most distant islanders shared in the broader Antillean “mindscape.”