For more thanyears Denis Williams one of Guyanas most accomplished scholars travelled from one end of the country to the other conducting surveys and excavations The result is the first comprehensive reconstruction of the history and characteristics of human settlement of the Guianas In this work of painstaking scholarship Denis William integrated a wide variety of evidence from original research with previously published archaelogical geological ecological ethnographic climatic and even nutritional data to develop the first major synthesis of the prehistory of Guyana Prehistoric Guiana includes oversketches photographs maps and tables as well as an extensive bibliography