The Maya Were More Advance Then Their Counterparts the Lokono and the Kalina. Discuss

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. The Maya, Kalina and the Lokono were three groups of indigenous people who lived in the Kalinabean. The Maya are indigenous people of southern Mexico and Central America. The Lokono were thought to have first settled on the borderland between Bolivia, Peru and the forests between the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers. They usually settled on the first island they came to and after a few years they would move again. The Kalina came from much further south than their Lokono counterparts. They migrated across Brazil to the interior of Guyana, then north to the coast of Venezuela. They followed that Lokono to the West Indies, moving from island to island in the Lesser Antilles. Despite some similarities between the groups, the Maya were more developed than their counterparts the Kalina and the Lokono in houses, political organisation and Education/Writing In terms of houses, The Lokono communities were small and the construction of their houses was rather simple. Wooden posts were put into the ground in a circle and canes were woven between them and tied with creepers. The roof was thatched in a conical shape and a hole was left at the top to allow smoke to escape. There were no windows and only an opening was left for a door. The houses were thoroughly built and could withstand hurricanes. The Lokono had two types of houses. The bohio was round and was the cacique's house while the other was the caneye or family house. The Kalina villages were similar to those of the Lokono. The villages were open and not protected by stockades or other defenses. The sexes did not live together; the men lived together in a large rectangular house called a carbet, or tabouii, measuring roughly 60 feet by 20 feet The houses were made of woven thatch reaching almost to the ground, looking like large beehives. The woven thatch made a strong flexible house, which could

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