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1 online resource (402 pages) |
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Intro; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Caribbean and circum-Caribbean farmers; Neolithic revolution versus Neolithic evolution; Defining farming; Climate change and Caribbean/circum-Caribbean farming; Human agency and farming; The Archaic Age; Archaic Age defined; Caribbean Archaic farmers; Circum-Caribbean Archaic farmers; Farming in the Ceramic Age of the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean; Ceramic Age Caribbean; Ethnohistoric evidence for agricultural practices in the Caribbean; Circum-Caribbean Ceramic Age; Book chapters; Conclusion; References |
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I Caribbean farmers from a regional perspective1 Comparative perspectives on pre-Columbian farming in the Caribbean as seen through the lens of historical ecology; Introduction; An historical ecology framework; Colonization and the prehistoric dispersal of plants and animals into the Caribbean; Caribbean farming: expectations and comparisons; Synopsis and future directions; Notes; References; 2 Humanizing the landscapes of the Lesser Antilles during the Archaic Age; Introduction; Current views on Archaic colonization and modifications to landscapes of the Lesser Antilles |
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Humanization of the Lesser Antillean landscapes by colonists dating to about 5000 cal bpNariva Swamp, Trinidad; Grenada; Martinique; Marie-Galante (Guadeloupe); Summary; References; 3 The neolithisation of the northeastern Caribbean; Introduction; Archaic Age mobility and social interaction; Archaic Age evidence in Puerto Rico and the northern Lesser Antilles; Early Archaic phase; Middle Archaic phase; Late Archaic phase; The Huecoid and Saladoid incursions; Plant managers and/or full horticulturalists; Concluding remarks; References; 4 Straddling the subsistence divide; Introduction |
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Canímar AbajoGuayabo Blanco, Cueva del Perico I, and Cueva Calero; Comparison of isotopic signatures to other sites in the Greater Antilles; Discussion; Conclusion; References Cited; 5 Early horticulturalists of the southern Caribbean; Introduction; Geo-environmental contexts of the southern Caribbean in the Archaic Age; The earliest human footprints; Trinidad; Blanquilla, Margarita, and Cubagua; Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire; Transitions to horticulture; Concluding remarks and future research; Notes; References; II Animal domestication |
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6 Animal management and domestication in the realm of Ceramic Age farmingIntroduction; Archaeological approaches to "domestic" animals and related challenges; Guinea pigs and hutias: case studies in Ceramic Age animal management; Domestic guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus); Hutias (Capromyidae, Capromys spp., Geocapromys spp., Isolobodon portoricensis, Plagiodontia spp.); The archaeology of domestic and managed animals in the Caribbean; Conclusion; References; III Caribbean farmers and rock art; 7 Rock art and horticulture in the Caribbean; Introduction |
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Creating the landscape through geometry: Archaic rock art |
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Print version record |
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Cariban Indians -- Agriculture
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Cariban Indians -- Antiquities
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Agriculture, Prehistoric -- Caribbean Area
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
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Agriculture, Prehistoric
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Antiquities
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Cariban Indians -- Antiquities
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Caribbean Area -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004014529
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Caribbean Area
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Electronic book
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9781351169196 |
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135116919X |
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