Archaeological Investigations On St Martin Lesser Antilles

Author : Corinne Lisette Hofman,Menno Lambertus Pieter Hoogland
Publisher : Leiden University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000086936394

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Archaeological Investigations on St. Martin (Lesser Antilles) by Corinne Lisette Hofman,Menno Lambertus Pieter Hoogland Pdf

The Leeward islands constitute one of the last remaining gaps in our knowledge of the West Indies. This book describes archaeological research at three sites (the Norman Estate, Anse des Peres and the Hope Estate) which aimed to resolve some outstanding questions. After reporting on environmental and archaeological investigations at each of the sites, Jose Oliver turns to focus on the `La Hueca Problem', named after the site discovered in 1977 which totally overturned convential views of the colonization of the Antilles. In his controversial essay, Oliver discusses new perspectives on the dates and strategies of the earliest South American colonists.

Author : Sebastiaan Knippenberg
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789087280086

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Stone Artefact Production and Exchange Among the Lesser Antilles by Sebastiaan Knippenberg Pdf

This archaeological study reconstructs Pre-Columbian exchange networks in the Lesser Antilles based on lithic artefact distributions among the different islands.

Author : Martijn M. van den Bel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Sued-Badillo, Jalil,UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231038327

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General History of the Caribbean by Sued-Badillo, Jalil,UNESCO Pdf

This is the first in a six-volume publication which examines the history of the Caribbean, its people and landscape on a thematic basis. This volume covers the history of the origins of the earliest Caribbean peoples and analyses their various political, social, cultural and economic organisations over time, in and around the region. Topics covered include: ethnohistorical research; biogeographic teleconnections; the Palaeoindians in Cuba and surrounding regions; agricultural societies; indigenous societies at the time of the Spanish Conquest; the hierarchy of chiefdoms; and the development of slavery.

Author : J. Sued-Badillo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349737642

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General History of the Caribbean - UNESCO by J. Sued-Badillo Pdf

Volume 1 of the General History of the Caribbean relates to the history of the origins of the earliest Caribbean people, and analyses their various political, social, cultural and economic organizations over time. This volume investigates the movement of Paleoindians into the islands, and looks at the agricultural societies which developed. It then explores the indigenous societies at the time of the Spanish Conquest, the hierarchy of the chiefdoms, and the development of slavery.

Author : Basil A. Reid,R. Grant Gilmore III
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780813048536

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Encyclopedia of Caribbean Archaeology by Basil A. Reid,R. Grant Gilmore III Pdf

Encyclopedia of Caribbean Archaeology offers a comprehensive overview of the available archaeological research conducted in the region. Beginning with the earliest native migrations and moving through contemporary issues of heritage management, the contributors tackle the usual questions of colonization, adaptation, and evolution while embracing newer research techniques, such as geoinformatics, archaeometry, paleodemography, DNA analysis, and seafaring simulations. Entries are cross-referenced so that readers can efficiently access data on a variety of related topics. The introduction includes a survey of the various archaeological periods in the Caribbean, as well as a discussion of the region’s geography, climate, topography, and oceanography. It also offers an easy-to-read review of the historical archaeology, providing a better understanding of the cultural contexts of the Caribbean that resulted from the convergence of European, Native American, African, and then Asian settlers.

Author : Basil A Reid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Nicholas J. Saunders
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781576077023

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The Peoples of the Caribbean by Nicholas J. Saunders Pdf

A true "first," this encyclopedia is the only comprehensive guide ever published on the archaeology and traditional culture of the Caribbean. In The Peoples of the Caribbean, archaeologist Nicholas J. Saunders assembles for the first time a comprehensive sourcebook on the archaeology, folklore, and mythology of the entire region, charting a story 7,000 years in the making. Drawing on decades of study in the Caribbean and South America, Saunders explores landmark archaeological sites, such as Caguana in Puerto Rico, with its ceremonial architecture and ballcourts, and plantation sites, such as Jamaica's Drax Hall. The author dives into the underwater archaeology of Spanish treasure galleons and untangles stories of cannibalism, zombies, and hallucinogenic snuffing rituals. He examines the impact of key Europeans, such as Christopher Columbus, and introduces readers to the native people, such as the Arawak, who welcomed them. Bringing the story up-to-date, Saunders chronicles the struggle of the indigenous people, from the Caribs of Dominica to the Taíno of the Dominican Republic, trying to reclaim and revitalize their historical cultural identity.

Author : Peter E. Siegel
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785337642

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Island Historical Ecology by Peter E. Siegel Pdf

In the first book-length treatise on historical ecology of the West Indies, Island Historical Ecology addresses Caribbean island ecologies from the perspective of social and cultural interventions over approximately eight millennia of human occupations. Environmental coring carried out in carefully selected wetlands allowed for the reconstruction of pre-colonial and colonial landscapes on islands between Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Comparisons with well-documented patterns in the Mediterranean and Pacific islands place this case study into a larger context of island historical ecology.

Author : William F. Keegan,Corinne Lisette Hofman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190605254

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The Caribbean Before Columbus by William F. Keegan,Corinne Lisette Hofman Pdf

The islands of the Caribbean are remarkably diverse, environmentally and culturally. Ranging from low limestone islands to volcanic islands with mountainous peaks, from rainforests to desert habitats, they are home to a mosaic of indigenous communities and to the descendants of Europeans, Africans, and Asians. Yet this diversity has become homogenized, for both the tourist and the historian. For instance, it was assumed that every new prehistoric culture had developed out of the culture that preceded it. Furthermore, the overly simplistic distinction between the "peaceful Arawak" and the "cannibal Carib," which forms the structure for James Michener's Caribbean, still dominates popular notions of precolonial Caribbean societies. This book documents the diversity and complexity that existed in the Caribbean prior to the arrival of Europeans, and immediately thereafter. The diversity results from different origins, different histories, different contacts between the islands and the mainland, different environmental conditions, and shifting social alliances. Organized chronologically, from the arrival of the first humans - the paleo-Indians - in the sixth millennium BC to early contact with Europeans, The Caribbean before Columbus presents a new history of the region based on the latest archaeological evidence. The authors also consider cultural developments on the surrounding mainland, since the islands' history is a story of mobility and exchange across the Caribbean Sea, and possibly the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Straits. The result is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of the richly complex cultures who once inhabited the six archipelagoes of the Caribbean. -- from back cover.

Author : Paul E. Minnis
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0816502242

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People and Plants in Ancient Eastern North America by Paul E. Minnis Pdf

Author : Alistair J. Bright
Publisher : Sidestone Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9789088900716

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Blood is Thicker Than Water by Alistair J. Bright Pdf

This study represents a contribution to the pre-Colonial archaeology of the Windward Islands in the Caribbean. The research aimed to determine how the Ceramic Age (c. 400 BC - AD 1492) Amerindian inhabitants of the region related to one another and others at various geographic scales, with a view to better understanding social interaction and organisation within the Windward Islands as well the integration of this region within the macro-region. This research approached the study of intra- and inter-island interaction and social development through an island-by-island study of some 640 archaeological sites and their ceramic assemblages. Besides providing insight into settlement sequences, patterns and micro-mobility through time, it also highlighted various configurations of sites spread across different islands that were united by shared ceramic (decorative) traits. These configurations were more closely examined by taking recourse to graph-theory. By extending the comparative scope of this research to the Greater Antilles and the South American mainland, possible material cultural influences from more distant regions could be suggested. While Windward Island communities certainly developed a localised material cultural identity, they remained open to a host of wide-ranging influences outside the Windward Island micro-region. As such, rather than representing a cultural backwater operating in the periphery of a burgeoning Taíno empire, it is argued that Windward Island communities actively and flexibly realigned themselves with several mainland South American societies in Late Ceramic Age times (c. AD 700-1500), forging and maintaining significant ties and exchange relationships. Alistair Bright was a member of the Caribbean Research Group at Leiden University from 2003 to 2010 and participated in numerous archaeological surveys and excavations in the Caribbean during that time. His research interests include the archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnography of the Caribbean and South America, as well as the archaeology of island societies throughout the world in general.

Author : William F. Keegan,Corinne L. Hofman,Reniel Rodriguez Ramos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199875078

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The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology by William F. Keegan,Corinne L. Hofman,Reniel Rodriguez Ramos Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology provides an overview of archaeological investigations in the insular Caribbean, understood here as the islands whose shores surround the Caribbean Sea and the islands of the Bahama Archipelago. Though these islands were never isolated from the surrounding mainland, their histories are sufficiently diverse to warrant their identification as distinct areas of culture. Over the past 20 years, Caribbean archaeology has been transformed from a focus on reconstructing culture histories to one on the mobility and exchange expressed in cultural and social dynamics. This Handbook brings together, for the first time, examples of the best research conducted by scholars from across the globe to address the complexity of the Caribbean past. The Handbook is divided into five sections. Part I, Islands of History and the Precolonial History of the Caribbean Islands, provides an introduction to Caribbean Archaeology and its history. The papers in the following Ethnohistory section address the diversity of cultural practices expressed in the insular Caribbean and develop historical descriptions in concert with archaeological evidence in order to place language, social organization, and the native Ta?nos and Island Caribs in perspective. The following section, Culture History, provides the latest research on specific geographical locations and cross-cultural engagements, from Jamaica and the Bahama archigelago to the Saladoid and the Isthmo-Antillean Engagements. Creating History, the fourth section, includes papers on specific issues related to the field, such as Zooarchaeology, Rock Art, and DNA analysis, among others. The final section, World History, centers on the consequences of European colonization.

Author : D. Bar-Yosef
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782979074

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Archaeomalacology by D. Bar-Yosef Pdf

Molluscs are the most common invertebrate remains found at archaeological sites, but archaeomalacology (the study of molluscs in archaeological contexts) is a relatively new archaeological discipline and the field of zooarchaeology is seen by many as one mainly focused on the remains of vertebrates. The papers in this volume hope to redress this balance, bringing molluscan studies into mainstream zooarchaeological and archaeological debate, and resulting in a monograph with a truly international flavour.

Author : John F. Cherry,Krysta Ryzewski
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789253931

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An Archaeological History of Montserrat, West Indies by John F. Cherry,Krysta Ryzewski Pdf

Montserrat is a small island in the Leeward islands of the eastern Caribbean and at present a British Overseas Territory. It has suffered greatly in recent times, first from the devastations of Hurricane Hugo in 1989 and since 1995 from the still-ongoing eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano that has caused two-thirds of the island’s population to emigrate and left half the island a dangerous exclusion zone. Archaeological research here began only in the late 1970s, but work over the past four decades has now made it possible to present an archaeological history of Montserrat, from the earliest known traces of human activity on the island about 5,000 years ago to the present. This book draws on all the available archaeological evidence (including that from the co-authors’ own island-wide survey and excavation project since 2010), as well as newly available archival documents, to trace this little island’s long history and heritage. This is not the story of an isolated and remote island: Montserrat is shown rather to be a place intricately connected to the flows of people and goods that have travelled between islands and across the Atlantic at various points in time, both Amerindian and historical. Despite its small size and seeming irrelevance, Montserrat has in fact always been networked into regional and global systems of connectivity. An underlying theme of this volume is resilience. It presents insights from the archaeological and documentary evidence on how the island’s inhabitants have coped with often adverse conditions throughout the course of its history – hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, slavery, disease, invasions, and impoverishment – all while remaining proudly connected to heritage that celebrates the accomplishments of island residents.