| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Florida museum of natural history : Ripley P. Bullen series |
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Ripley P. Bullen series.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Cuba and the Greater Antilles / Ivan Roksandic -- The role of the Nicaraguan rise in the early peopling of the Greater Antilles / Ivan Roksandic -- An archaeological overview of the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua / Sagrario Balladares Navarro and Leonardo Lechado Ríos -- People and plants in the precontact Caribbean: the view from Canímar Abajo, Cuba / David G. Smith -- Diagnosis of the processing methods of starch-rich foods in archaeological artifacts: an experimental model / Roberto Rodríguez Suárez, Jorge Ezra Cruz Palma, and Guillermo Acosta Ochoa -- Sedentism and mobility patterns at Canímar Abajo Cemetery, Matanzas, Cuba: paleodemographic evidence / Mirjana Roksandic -- Communities in contact: health and paleodemography at el Chorro de Maíta, Cuba / Darlene A. Weston and Roberto Valcárcel Rojas -- A Pre-Columbian dental modification complex at the site of Canímar Abajo, Matanzas, Cuba / Kaitlynn Alarie and Mirjana Roksandic -- Isotopic evidence of variations in subsistence strategies and food consumption patterns among "fisher-gatherer" populations of western Cuba / Yadira Chinique de Armas, Mirjana Roksandic, Roberto Rodríguez Suárez, David G. Smith, and William M. Buhay -- Human mobility and dietary patterns in precolonial Puerto Rico: integrating multiple isotope data / Jason E. Laffoon -- Food preparation and dietary preferences among the Arawak aboriginal communities of Cuba / Ulises M. González Herrera -- Indians in Cuba: from pre-Columbian villages to the colonial world / Roberto Valcárcel Rojas -- Los Indios de Campeche: the Maya diaspora and the Mesoamerican presence in colonial Cuba / Jason M. Yaremko -- Recent advances in the archaeology of the Greater Antilles: some final remarks / Reniel Rodríguez Ramos |
| Summary |
Through analysis of early agriculture, linguistics, burial customs, dental modification, pottery production, dietary patterns, starch grain analysis and more, this volume presents a solid theory of mainland migration into the Caribbean |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-280) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Caribbean Area
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Archaeology -- Cuba
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Archaeology -- Caribbean Area
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
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Antiquities
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Archaeology
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Emigration and immigration
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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| SUBJECT |
Caribbean Area -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004014529
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Cuba -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88001018
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Caribbean Area -- Emigration and immigration -- History
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| Subject |
Caribbean Area
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Cuba
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Roksandic, Ivan, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781683400127 |
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1683400127 |
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9781683400257 |
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1683400259 |
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