Tanki flip
Coordinates: 12 ° 33 ' N , 70 ° 2' W
 
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Location of Tanki Flip in Aruba |
Tanki Flip is a village in the northwest of the island of Aruba , which belongs to the Tanki Leendert region.
history
Tanki Flip is one of the three oldest settlements on the island. As the artefacts that archaeological excavations prove on an area of 0.6 hectares in Tanki Flip, people settled there from around 2500 BC. The Arawak Indians of the Caquetíos tribe probably came to the island in canoes from the South American mainland and the opposite Venezuela, and they also spread to Curaçao and Bonaire .
According to the finds, they were fishermen, hunters and gatherers and they used primitive stone tools and later also made ceramic vessels. The arrangement of the graves and burial sites from the Stone Age show a clear hierarchy that was dominated by men. Similar settlements have been discovered in the Savaneta and Santa Cruz area . Not far from Tanki Flip in what is now Malmok , complete skeletons of the first settlers have been excavated. The finds are in the Museo Arqueologico Nacional Aruba .
Various sculptures and objects from the Indian era appeared on Post Aruba stamps in 1990 .
today
Tanki Flip is home to the northernmost fire station of the Aruba professional fire department, next to small houses, the Tanki Flip Shopping Mall (shopping center) and restaurants.
See also
literature
- Aad Heindrick Versteeg, Stéphen Rostain (Ed.): The archeology of Aruba: the Tanki Flip site. ( Publication of the Archaeological Museum Aruba. Volume 8) ( Publication. Foundation for Scientific Research in the Caribbean Region. Volume 141). Archaeological Museum Aruba, Aruba 1997, ISBN 99904-85-20-8 .