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Title Crossing the borders : new methods and techniques in the study of archaeological materials from the Caribbean / edited by Corinne L. Hofman, Menno L.P. Hoogland, and Annelou L. van Gijn
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 293 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory
Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.
Contents Crossing disciplinary boundaries and national borders : new methods and techniques in the study of archaeological materials from the Caribbean / Corinne L. Hofman, Menno L.P. Hoogland, and Annelou L. van Gijn -- In tuneful threefold : combining conventional archaeological methods, archaeometric techniques, and ethnoarchaeological research in the study of precolonial pottery of the Caribbean / Corinne L. Hofman [and others] -- American gold and European brass : metal objects and indigenous values in the cemetery of El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba / Jago Cooper, Marcos Martinón-Torres, and Roberto Valcárcel Rojas -- Chert sourcing in the northern Lesser Antilles : the use of geochemical techniques in discriminating chert materials / Sebastiaan Knippenberg and Johannes J.P. Zijlstra -- A new material to view the past : dental alginate molds of friable artifacts / Charlene Dixon Hutcheson -- Saladoid lapidary technology : new methods for investigating stone bead drilling techniques / Christy de Mille, Tamara Varney, and Michael Turney -- Lithic technology : a way to more complex diversity in Caribbean archaeology / Benoît Bérard -- Tool use and technological choices : an integral approach toward functional analysis of Caribbean tool assemblages / Annelou L. van Gijn, Yvonne Lammers-Keijsers, and Iris Briels -- Understanding the function of coral tools from Anse à la Gourde : an experimental approach / Harold J. Kelly and Annelou L. van Gijn -- The significance of wear and residue studies : an example from Plum Piece, Saba / Channah J. Nieuwenhuis -- Starch residues on lithic artifacts from two contrasting contexts in northwestern Puerto Rico : Los Muertos Cave and Vega de Nelo Vargas farmstead / Jaime R. Pagán Jiménez and José R. Oliver -- The burén in precolonial Cuban archaeology : new information regarding the use of plants and ceramic griddles during the late Ceramic Age of eastern Cuba gathered through starch analysis / Roberto Rodríguez Suárez and Jaime R. Pagán Jiménez -- Caribbean paleoethnobotany : present status and new horizons (understanding the evolution of an indigenous ethnobotany) / Lee A. Newsom -- New evidence of two different migratory waves in the circum-Caribbean area during the pre-Columbian period from the analysis of dental morphological traits / Alfredo Coppa [and others] -- Tracing human mobility with 87Sr/86Sr at Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe / Mathijs A. Booden [and others] -- Epilogue: The correct answer requires the right question (and the technology to back it up) / William F. Keegan
Summary Explores the application of a selected number of newly emerging methods and techniques. During the past few decades, Caribbean scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly developed and employed new methods and techniques for the study of archaeological materials. The aim of earlier research in the Caribbean was mainly to define typologies on the basis of pottery and lithic assemblages leading to the establishment of chronological charts for the region, and it was not until the 1980s that the use of technological and functional analyses of arti
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-284) and index
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Subject Indians of the West Indies -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Excavations (Archaeology) -- West Indies -- Congresses
Archaeology -- West Indies -- Methodology -- Congresses
HISTORY -- General.
Antiquities
Archaeology -- Methodology
Excavations (Archaeology)
Indians of the West Indies -- Antiquities
SUBJECT West Indies -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Subject West Indies
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Hofman, Corinne L., 1959-
Hoogland, Menno Lambertus Pieter, 1954-
Gijn, Annelou L. van, 1954-
Society for American Archaeology. Meeting (71st : 2006 : San Juan, P.R.)
LC no. 2007025952
ISBN 9780817381967
0817381961