Colette and 2 of her school’s CE1 classes went on a field trip to a local forest in the hills in the south. We saw many of the local rainforest trees and plants — which are somewhat different here in the south of Martinque than in the more elevated north. There are petroglyphs there from an Arawak community that lived there some 500-1400 years ago, before the Caribs swept the Arawaks off Martinique.
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- Beginning the forest walk
The petroglyphs are on private property. The owner has lived there since a child, but has watched the petroglyphs deteriorate and many people have touched them and worn them down. She said that once the glyphs were 1 centimeter in relief, now only barely so. She pours water over the glyphs so you can see them. Apparently there are many undocumented Arawak sites on Martinique.
