Corantijn Basin

The Corantijn, Corantijn or Courantyne River is the Border River between Suriname and Guyana. The Corantijn Basin is one of a number of archaeological sites located in the hinterland of Suriname, South America.[1] [2] The Suriname archaeological sites provide information on Indigenous Peoples who lived in Suriname before 1492. Most of the petroglyphs are in the Corantijn Basin site. Petroglyphs provide an important insight into the ceremonial, mythical and religious world of these precontact indigenous peoples.[3] [4]

The site is also well known as the habitat of Pseudoplatystoma, a genus of several South American catfish.[5]

Notes
  1. Versteeg, Aad (2003). "Suriname before Columbus". Paramaribo: Stichting Surinaams Museum, Libri Musei Surinamensis 1.
  2. Renzo Duin and Cheryl White (eds.) (2017). "Archaeology in Suriname". His/HerTori: Tijdschrift voor Surinaamse Geschiedenis en Cultuur.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  3. "The history of prehistoric archaeological research in Suriname". Retrieved 2007-04-03.
  4. Duin, Renzo (2017). "Written in Stone: Revisiting Early Studies on Timehri Petroglyphs in Suriname". In "Archaeology in Suriname", His/HerTori: Tijdschrift voor Surinaamse Geschiedenis en Cultuur. Renzo Duin and Cheryl White (eds.). Pp. 57-72. Paramaribo: IMwO. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
  5. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2007). "Pseudoplatystoma tigrinum" in FishBase. Apr 2007 version.


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