Archaeological Investigations Between Cayenne Island And The Maroni River

Author : Martijn M. Van den Bel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9088903301

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Archaeological Investigations Between Cayenne Island and the Maroni River by Martijn M. Van den Bel Pdf

Stratigraphic archaeological research in French Guiana is barely 50 years old and has been conducted primarily in the coastal zone, stretching approximately between 5 and 50 kilometres from the Atlantic coast to the Precambrian Shield. This bias, mainly caused by means of modern infrastructure, has sketched an archaeological record concerning pre-Columbian French Guiana focussing on the Late Ceramic Age (AD 900-1500) of Cayenne Island as well as the western Holocene coastal plains. The present study contains the results of six archaeological investigations, conducted from a compliance archaeological perspective, in order to enhance our knowledge of the afore-mentioned coastal area. It not only presents us with fresh archaeological data on the (Late) Archaic and Early Ceramic Age, a hiatus that is now partially filled up, but also sheds new light on the Late Ceramic Age of this specific region concerning funerary rites, ceramic series and subsistence economy. Martijn van den Bel studied History and Archaeology of Indigenous America at Leiden University and graduated in 1995 with an ethnoarchaeological study on the Palikur potters of French Guiana. Currently he works as a project leader for Inrap in French Guiana. He carries out compliance archaeological research in the French Guiana and the French Lesser Antilles. Next to archaeology, Martijn is interested in the early history of the Guianas and the Lesser Antilles, notably the encounter between Amerindians and Europeans during the 16th and 17th century, resulting in various publications.

Author : Martijn M. van den Bel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000452440

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Archaeological Investigations on Guadeloupe, French West Indies by Martijn M. van den Bel Pdf

Comprising 20 scientific contributions to the archaeology of Guadeloupe, French West Indies, this volume places the latter Caribbean Island in the spotlight by presenting the results of four contemporaneous archaeological sites. By means of these four sites, this book explores a variety of issues contemplating the transition from the Early to the Late Ceramic Age in the Lesser Antilles. Studies of pre-Columbian material culture (ceramics, lithics, faunal, shell and human bone remains) are combined with additional microanalyses (starch and phytolith analyses, micromorphology and thin sections) to sort out the processes that triggered the cultural transition just before the end of the first millennium CE. The multidisciplinary approach to address these sites Saladoid shows the current state of affairs on project-led archaeology in the French West Indies and should be of great value to both researchers and students of Caribbean archaeology, material cultures, zooarchaeology, environmental studies, historical ecology, and other related fields.

Author : Basil A Reid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351169189

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The Archaeology of Caribbean and Circum-Caribbean Farmers (6000 BC - AD 1500) by Basil A Reid Pdf

Comprising 17 chapters and with a wide geographic reach stretching from the Florida Keys in the north to the Guianas in the south, this volume places a well-needed academic spotlight on what is generally considered an integral topic in Caribbean and circum-Caribbean archaeology. The book explores a variety of issues, including the introduction and dispersal of early cultivars, plant manipulation, animal domestication, dietary profiles, and landscape modifications. Tried-and-true and novel analytical techniques are used to tease out aspects of the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean database that inform the complex and often-subtle processes of domestication under varying socio-environmental conditions. Contributors discuss their findings within multiple constructs such as neolithisation, social interaction, trade, mobility, social complexity, migration, colonisation, and historical ecology. Multiple data sources are used which include but are not restricted to rock art, cooking pits and pots, stable isotopes, dental calculus and pathologies, starch grains, and proxies for past environmental conditions. Given its multi-disciplinary approaches, this volume should be of immense value to both researchers and students of Caribbean archaeology, biogeography, ethnobotany, zooarchaeology, historical ecology, agriculture, environmental studies, history, and other related fields.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004273689

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Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas by Anonim Pdf

Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas brings together 15 archaeological case studies that offer new perspectives on colonial period interactions in the Caribbean and surrounding areas through a specific focus on material culture and indigenous agency.

Author : James Andrew Whitaker,Chelsey Geralda Armstrong,Guillaume Odonne
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000924381

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Climatic and Ecological Change in the Americas by James Andrew Whitaker,Chelsey Geralda Armstrong,Guillaume Odonne Pdf

This book offers a comparative analysis of the experiences, responses, and adaptations of people to climate variability and environmental change across the Americas. It foregrounds historical ecology as a structural framework for understanding the climate change crisis throughout the region and throughout time. In recent years, Indigenous and local populations in particular have experienced climate change effects such as altered weather patterns, seasonal irregularities, flooding and drought, and difficulties relating to subsistence practices. Understanding and dealing with these challenges has drawn on peoples’ longstanding experience with climate variability and in some cases includes models of mitigation and responses that are millennia old. With contributions from specialists across the Americas, this volume will be of interest to scholars from fields including anthropology, archaeology, geography, environmental studies, and Indigenous studies.

Author : Kofi Yakpo,Pieter C. Muysken
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614514886

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Boundaries and Bridges by Kofi Yakpo,Pieter C. Muysken Pdf

Multidirectional language contact involving more than two languages is little described. However, it probably represents the most common type of contact in the world, where colonization, rapid socioeconomic and demographic change, and society-wide multilingualism have led to dramatic linguistic change. This book presents fascinating cases of multidirectional contact and convergence between highly diverse languages in an emerging linguistic area in Suriname and the Guianas and proposes a framework for comparable studies.

Author : Helaine Silverman,William Isbell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1172 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387749075

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Handbook of South American Archaeology by Helaine Silverman,William Isbell Pdf

Perhaps the contributions of South American archaeology to the larger field of world archaeology have been inadequately recognized. If so, this is probably because there have been relatively few archaeologists working in South America outside of Peru and recent advances in knowledge in other parts of the continent are only beginning to enter larger archaeological discourse. Many ideas of and about South American archaeology held by scholars from outside the area are going to change irrevocably with the appearance of the present volume. Not only does the Handbook of South American Archaeology (HSAA) provide immense and broad information about ancient South America, the volume also showcases the contributions made by South Americans to social theory. Moreover, one of the merits of this volume is that about half the authors (30) are South Americans, and the bibliographies in their chapters will be especially useful guides to Spanish and Portuguese literature as well as to the latest research. It is inevitable that the HSAA will be compared with the multi-volume Handbook of South American Indians (HSAI), with its detailed descriptions of indigenous peoples of South America, that was organized and edited by Julian Steward. Although there are heroic archaeological essays in the HSAI, by the likes of Junius Bird, Gordon Willey, John Rowe, and John Murra, Steward states frankly in his introduction to Volume Two that “arch- ology is included by way of background” to the ethnographic chapters.

Author : Albert Clanton Spaulding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258414317

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Archaeological Investigations on Agattu by Albert Clanton Spaulding Pdf

Anthropological Papers, No. 18. Excavations During 1948-1951 Into Botany And Anthropology Of The Area.

Author : Waldemar 1855-1937 Jochelson
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019365935

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Archaeological Investigations in the Aleutian Islands by Waldemar 1855-1937 Jochelson Pdf

This archaeological study provides a detailed examination of the culture and history of the Aleutian Islands. It includes information about the indigenous cultures that inhabited these islands, as well as a discussion of the archaeological discoveries made in the area. This book will appeal to anyone interested in archaeology or Native American history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Erik Holtved
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:474126148

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Archaeological Investigations in the Thule District by Erik Holtved Pdf

Author : George Amos Dorsey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:601326484

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Archaeological Investigations on the Island of La Plata, Ecuador by George Amos Dorsey Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Bahamas
ISBN : WISC:89049044563

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Caribbean Islands Handbook by Anonim Pdf

Includes all the English, French, Dutch and Spanish speaking islands, the Bahamas and Bermuda.

Author : Jimmy Mans
Publisher : Sidestone Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9789088900983

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Amotopoan Trails by Jimmy Mans Pdf

In this book the concept of mobility is explored for the archaeology of the Amazonian and Caribbean region. As a result of technological and methodological progress in archaeology, mobility has become increasingly visible on the level of the individual. However, as a concept it does not seem to fit with current approaches in Amazonian archaeology, which favour a move away from viewing small mobile groups as models for the deeper past. Instead of ignoring such ethnographic tyrannies, in this book they are considered to be essential for arriving at a different past. Viewing archaeological mobility as the sum of movements of both people and objects, the empirical part of Amotopoan Trails focuses on Amotopo, a small contemporary Trio village in the interior of Suriname. The movements of the Amotopoans are tracked and positioned in a century of Trio dynamics, ultimately yielding a recent archaeology of Surinamese-Trio movements for the Sipaliwini River basin (1907-2008). Alongside the construction of this archaeology, novel mobility concepts are introduced. They provide the conceptual footholds which enable the envisioning of mobility at various temporal scales, from a decade up to a century, the sequence of which has remained a blind spot in Caribbean and Amazonian archaeology.

Author : John H. Stubbs,Emily G. Makaš
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780470901113

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Architectural Conservation in Europe and the Americas by John H. Stubbs,Emily G. Makaš Pdf

“From such well-known and long-vexed sites as the Athenian Acropolis to more contemporary locales like the Space Age Modernist capital city of Brasília, the conflicting and not always neatly resolvable forces that bear upon preservation are addressed as clearly and thoughtfully as the general reader could hope for.”—New York Review of Books “...an astonishing feat of research, compilation and synthesis.”—Context The book delivers the first major survey concerning the conservation of cultural heritage in both Europe and the Americas. Architectural Conservation in Europe and the Americas serves as a convenient resource for professionals, students, and anyone interested in the field. Following the acclaimed Time Honored, this book presents contemporary practice on a country-by-country and region-by-region basis, facilitating comparative analysis of similarities and differences. The book stresses solutions in architectural heritage protection and the contexts in which they were developed.

Author : Ben Box
Publisher : Passport Books
Page : 1542 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0844288810

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South American Handbook, 1996 by Ben Box Pdf

This compact handbook gives the most complete and up-to-date information on how to get to locations in South America, when to go, what to see, and how to make the trip a success. 50 color photos and maps.