Falkland Islanders

Common card · No. 210695

Falkland Islanders, also called Falklanders, are the people of the Falkland Islands, a British Overseas Territory in South America. While it was long believed that the Falkland Islands were never discovered or inhabited by Indigenous peoples prior to European arrival, recent scientific evidence suggests otherwise. Archaeological and paleoecological data indicate prehistoric human activity on the islands centuries before European exploration. This evidence, which includes traces of abrupt fire activity, deposits of mixed marine vertebrates, and a locally sourced stone projectile point, suggests that capable seafaring peoples from Tierra del Fuego, such as the Yaghan (Yámana), may have reached the islands during the Holocene. The modern Falkland Islander population derives from various origins since the 19th century. Earliest among these are the numerically small but internationally diverse early 19th century inhabitants of the Islands, comprising and descended in part from settlers brought...

Read on Wikipedia · Image Apcbg, Public domain