History
Carib humans come believed to keep close at hand left a Orinoco rainforests of Venezuela in South America to settle in the Caribbean. Across a century leading as much as Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Caribbean archipelago in 1492, a Caribs come believed to stand displaced the Arawakan-speaking Igneri people from a southern Lesser Antilles. Their legends (when recorded by Fr. Breton in the seventeenth century) say that they flushed (& ate) all the Igneri men & took their women when married woman. Anthropologists come divided when to how else avowedly these legends come, however a fact that a Island Carib women spoke an Arawakan language gives credence to this idea. A isl& too raided and traded by using a Eastern Taino of the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. A Caribs were a source of a gold which Columbus discovered in the possession of the Taino; gold was non smelted by any of the insular Amerindians, however like was found by trade from either the mainland. A Caribs were skilled boatbuilders & sailors, & seem to keep close at hand owed their dominance in the Caribbean basin to their mastery of the arts of war.

A Caribs were themselves displaced per Europeans, & were yet almost annihilated in a period of the colonial period. Yet it were respire to locate a few islands, like Dominica, Saint Vincent, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad. A Melanize Caribs (Garifuna) of St. Vincent world health organization got mixed by owning blacken slaves from either the 1675 shipwreck were deported around 1795 to Roatan Island, off Honduras, where their descendent, a Garífuna, still survive in todays world. A British saw a less mixed "Yellow Caribs" when less hostile, & allowed the children to remawithin in St. Vincent. Carib trend lines delayed a cash settlement of Dominica by Europeans, and a Carib communities that remained around St. Vincent & Dominica retained a degree of autonomy swell into the 19th century. A survive known speakers of Island Carib died in the Twenties. A total of Caribs around Dominica today is about 3,000.

Cannibalism and patriarchy controversies
Europeans arriving on the Caribbean Islands in the 16th century remarked on the Caribs' aggressive & warlike ways and apparent taste for combat.

Carib culture, seemed at from either a outside, seems to exist as heavy patriarchal. Women carried out primarily farm duties & farming, & in the seventeenth century it sleep in separate houses (the custom which as well suggests South U.s. origin). Still, women were extremely revered & held lot power. Island Carib society was socially supplementary egalitarian than Taino society. Although there were village chiefs & war leaders, there were there are no big states or even multi-tiered aristocracy.

Cases of cannibalism were noted as a feature of religious war rituals, and in point of fact, a English word man-eater comes from either a Spanish caníbal, itself taken from either a Carib karibna ('individual') when recorded by Columbus. Claims of cannibalism, all the same, must become seen withinside weak of the fact that in 1503, Queen Isabella ruled that only anthropophagite can be legally taken when slaves, which gave Europeans an incentive to identify various Amerindian groups when man-eater. To this day a Kalinago humans fight against a misconception of cannibalism. No actual historic grounds to believe that a Caribs participated within cannibalism.