说起印地安人,脑海中就会浮现出头戴羽饰(图1),除腰间的一块遮羞布,几乎赤裸全身,身上涂满各种花纹的那些美洲大陆原住民的形象。可是印地安人的故乡却在南美亚马逊河下游地区,北上加勒比诸岛和北美大陆那是后来的事。他们才是圭亚那最早的居民。从九世纪起就在那里定居,多以采果和狩猎为生,目前还有4万余人,是当今世界最典型的活化石之一。圭亚那一词在印地安语中就是“多水之乡”之意。哥伦布在 When it comes to Indians, the appearance of feathers (Figure 1) emerge in their heads, with the image of a fig leaf, a fig leaf, a bare-chested body, and tattoos of native Americans of all continents. But the homeland of the Indians was in the lower Amazon region of South America, north of the Caribbean Islands and North America, which is what happened. They are the first inhabitants of Guyana. There have been more than 40,000 people since they settled there in the ninth century, mostly picking fruit and hunting. They are one of the most typical living fossils in the world today. The word Guyana in Indian is “the land of plenty”. Columbus at