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Author : Irving Rouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Puerto Rico
ISBN : IND:30000112116730
Author : Irving Rouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Puerto Rico
ISBN : IND:30000083742571
Author : Peter W. Stahl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521444861
This volume explore problems faced by archaeologists in the difficult conditions of the lowland American tropics.
Author : David G. Mandelbaum,Gabriel W. Lasker,Ethel M. Albert
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520376328
Author : Peter E. Siegel
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817352387
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Author : William F. Keegan,Corinne Lisette Hofman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190605254
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 : Elizabeth Righter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134552689
Excavations at the Tutu site represent a dramatic chapter in the annals of Caribbean archaeological excavation. The site was discovered in 1990 during the initial site clearing for a shopping mall in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The site was excavated with the assistance of a team of professional archaeologists and volunteers. Utilizing resources and funds donated by the local scientific communities, the project employed a multidisciplinary sampling strategy designed to recover material for analysis by experts in fields such as anthropology, archaeology, palaeobotany, zooarchaeology, bioarchaeology, palaeopathology and photo imaging. This volume reports the results of these various applied analytical techniques laying a solid foundation for future comparative studies of prehistoric Caribbean human populations and cultures.
Author : William F. Keegan,Corinne L. Hofman,Reniel Rodriguez Ramos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199875078
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 : Joanna Ostapkowicz,Jonathan A. Hanna
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817320874
"Examines the largely unexplored topics in Caribbean archaeology of looting of heritage sites, artifact fraud, and illicit trade of archaeological materials"--
Author : Nicholas Marquez-Grant,Linda Fibiger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136879555
Methodologies and legislative frameworks regarding the archaeological excavation, retrieval, analysis, curation and potential reburial of human skeletal remains differ throughout the world. As work forces have become increasingly mobile and international research collaborations are steadily increasing, the need for a more comprehensive understanding of different national research traditions, methodologies and legislative structures within the academic and commercial sector of physical anthropology has arisen. The Routledge Handbook of Archaeological Human Remains and Legislation provides comprehensive information on the excavation of archaeological human remains and the law through 62 individual country contributions from Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America and Australasia. More specifically, the volume discusses the following: What is the current situation (including a brief history) of physical anthropology in the country? What happens on discovering human remains (who is notified, etc.)? What is the current legislation regarding the excavation of archaeological human skeletal remains? Is a license needed to excavate human remains? Is there any specific legislation regarding excavation in churchyards? Any specific legislation regarding war graves? Are physical anthropologists involved in the excavation process? Where is the cut-off point between forensic and archaeological human remains (e.g. 100 years, 50 years, 25 years...)? Can human remains be transported abroad for research purposes? What methods of anthropological analysis are mostly used in the country? Are there any methods created in that country which are population-specific? Are there particular ethical issues that need to be considered when excavating human remains, such as religious groups or tribal groups? In addition, an overview of landmark anthropological studies and important collections are provided where appropriate. The entries are contained by an introductory chapter by the editors which establish the objectives and structure of the book, setting it within a wider archaeological framework, and a conclusion which explores the current European and world-wide trends and perspectives in the study of archaeological human remains. The Routledge Handbook of Archaeological Human Remains and Legislation makes a timely, much-needed contribution to the field of physical anthropology and is unique as it combines information on the excavation of human remains and the legislation that guides it, alongside information on the current state of physical anthropology across several continents. It is an indispensible tool for archaeologists involved in the excavation of human remains around the world.
Author : Peter E. Siegel,Elizabeth Righter
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780817356675
This volume addresses the problem of how Caribbean nations deal with the challenges of protecting their cultural heritages or patrimonies within the context of pressing economic development concerns.
Author : Clyde L. MacKenzie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Shellfish fisheries
ISBN : UCSD:31822016476749
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030219810
Author : Peter N. Peregrine,Melvin Ember
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461505259
The Encyclopedia of Prehistory represents temporal dimension. Major traditions are an attempt to provide basic information also defined by a somewhat different set of on all archaeologically known cultures, sociocultural characteristics than are eth covering the entire globe and the entire nological cultures. Major traditions are prehistory of humankind. It is designed as defined based on common subsistence a tool to assist in doing comparative practices, sociopolitical organization, and research on the peoples of the past. Most material industries, but language, ideology, of the entries are written by the world's and kinship ties play little or no part in foremost experts on the particular areas their definition because they are virtually and time periods. unrecoverable from archaeological con The Encyclopedia is organized accord texts. In contrast, language, ideology, and ing to major traditions. A major tradition kinship ties are central to defining ethno is defined as a group of populations sharing logical cultures. similar subsistence practices, technology, There are three types of entries in the and forms of sociopolitical organization, Encyclopedia: the major tradition entry, which are spatially contiguous over a rela the regional subtradition entry, and the tively large area and which endure tempo site entry. Each contains different types of rally for a relatively long period. Minimal information, and each is intended to be areal coverage for a major tradition can used in a different way.
Author : Lesley-Gail Atkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9766401497
This book highlights the variety of research conducted on the island's prehistoric site and artifacts. The text is a compilation of thirteen articles, five of which had been previously published but not widely available. The remaining eight new articles are based on archaeological research within the last five years. The book will appeal to a wide audience of archaeologists, historians, students of archaeology and anyone interested in Jamaica's history