For more than 25 years Denis Williams, one of Guyana’s 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 over 250 sketches, photographs, maps and tables as well as an extensive bibliography.