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1 online resource |
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Intro -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Corinne L. Hofman and Andrzej T. Antczak -- Dearchaizing the Caribbean Archaic -- Andrzej T. Antczak and Corinne L. Hofman -- Part One -- Environmental Challenges and Subsistence Strategies -- Gone with the waves: -- Sea-level rise, ancient territories and the socioenvironmental context of Mid-Holocene maritime mobility in the -- pan-Caribbean region -- Isabel C. Rivera-Collazo -- Archaeological evidence and the potential effects of paleotsunami events during the Archaic Age in the Southern Caribbean |
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Jay B. Haviser -- Natural and anthropogenic landscape change and the submergence and emergence of Archaic Age settlement on the eastern edge of the Anegada Passage -- John G. Crock -- Ecosystem engineering during the human occupations of the Lesser Antilles -- Peter E. Siegel, John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, Nicholas P. Dunning, Pat Farrell, Neil A. Duncan, and Jason H. Curtis -- On the way to the islands: The role of domestic plants in the initial peopling of the Antilles -- Jaime R. Pagán-Jiménez, Reniel Rodríguez Ramos and Corinne L. Hofman |
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Subsistence strategies and food consumption patterns of Archaic Age populations from Cuba: From traditional perspectives to current analytical results -- Yadira Chinique de Armas, Roberto Rodríguez Suárez, William M. Buhay, and Mirjana Roksandic -- Part Two -- Local Developments and Regional Entanglements -- The first settlers: Lithic through Archaic times in the coastal zone and on the offshore islands of northeast South America -- Arie Boomert -- Early Indigenous occupations of Margarita Island and the Venezuelan Caribbean |
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Andrzej T. Antczak, Luis A. Lemoine Buffet, Ma. Magdalena Antczak and Valentí Rull -- The Archaic Age of Aruba: -- New evidence on the first migrations to the island -- Harold Kelly and Corinne L. Hofman -- Construction and deconstruction -- of the "Archaic" in Cuba -- and Hispaniola -- Jorge Ulloa Hung and Roberto Valcárcel Rojas -- Levisa 1. Studying the earliest -- Indigenous peoples of Cuba in multicomponent archaeological sites -- Roberto Valcárcel Rojas, Jorge Ulloa Hung, and Osmani Feria García -- Situating Jamaica -- William F. Keegan |
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Guácaras in early precolonial Puerto Rico: The case of Cueva Ventana -- Reniel Rodríguez Ramos, Jaime R. Pagán-Jiménez, Yvonne Narganes Storde and Michael J. Lace -- The Krum Bay sites revisited. The excavations in the Krum Bay area on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands -- Casper Jacobsen Toftgaard -- Part Three -- Mobility and Exchange -- An Archaic site at Upper Blakes on Montserrat: Discovery, context and wider significance -- John F. Cherry and Krysta Ryzewski -- Archaic Age voyaging, networks and resource mobility around the Caribbean Sea |
| Summary |
This book offers a comprehensive coverage of the most recent advances in interdisciplinary research on the early human settling of the Caribbean islands. It covers the time span of the so-called Archaic Age and focuses on the Middle to Late Holocene period which - depending on specific case studies discussed in this volume - could range between 6000 BC and AD 1000. A similar approach to the early settlers of the Caribbean islands has never been published in one volume, impeding the realization of a holistic view on Indigenous peoples' settling, subsistence, movements, and interactions in this vast and naturally diversified macroregion.0Delivered by a panel of international experts, this book provides recent and new data in the fields of archaeology, collection studies, palaeobotany, geomorphology, paleoclimate and bioarchaeology that challenge currently existing perspectives on early human settlement patterns, subsistence strategies, migration routes and mobility and exchange. This publication compiles new approaches to 'old' data and museum collections, presents the results of starch grain analysis, paleocoring, seascape modelling, and network analysis. Moreover, it features newer published data from the islands such as Margarita and Aruba. All the above-mentioned data compiled in one volume fills the gap in scholarly literature, transforms some of the interpretations in vogue and enables the integration of the first settlers of the insular Caribbean into the larger Pan-American perspective |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Prehistoric peoples -- Caribbean Area
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HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
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HISTORY -- North America.
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Prehistoric peoples
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Caribbean Area -- History -- To 1810.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88001302
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| Subject |
Caribbean Area
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hofman, Corinne L., 1959- editor.
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Antczak, Andrzej T., editor
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| ISBN |
9789088907821 |
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908890782X |
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