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Author Newsom, Lee A.

Title On land and sea : Native American uses of biological resources in the West Indies / Lee A. Newsom and Elizabeth S. Wing
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 323 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Contents List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. An Introduction to Native American Uses of Biological Resources in the West Indies; 2. Environmental Setting; 3. Human Colonization of the West Indies; 4. Sources of Plant and Animal Samples and Methods Used to Study Them; 5. Southern Caribbean Region; 6. Lesser Antilles; 7. Greater Antilles and the Virgin Islands; 8. Bahamas Archipelago; 9. Toward a Synthetic Caribbean Paleoethnobiology; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; References Cited; Index
Summary Provides a storehouse of information on the human ecology of the Caribbean and illuminates the processes of colonization of island systems anywhere in the world. During the vast stretches of early geologic time, the islands of the Caribbean archipelago separated from continental land masses, rose and sank many times, merged with and broke from other land masses, and then by the mid-Cenozoic period settled into the current pattern known today. By the time Native Americans arrived, the islands had developed complex, stable ecosystems. The actions these first colonists took on the landscapeâ??tim
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-301) and index
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Subject Indians of the West Indies -- Ethnobotany
Indians of the West Indies -- Ethnozoology
Ethnoecology -- West Indies
Human-plant relationships -- West Indies
Human-animal relationships -- West Indies
Plant remains (Archaeology) -- West Indies
Animal remains (Archaeology) -- West Indies
Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- West Indies
Indians -- Ethnobotany -- West Indies
Indians -- Ethnozoology -- West Indies
SCIENCE -- Microscopes & Microscopy.
NATURE -- Animals -- Wildlife.
Indians -- Ethnobotany
Animal remains (Archaeology)
Antiquities
Human-animal relationships
Human-plant relationships
Indians of the West Indies -- Ethnozoology
Ethnoecology
Plant remains (Archaeology)
SUBJECT West Indies -- Antiquities
Subject West Indies
Form Electronic book
Author Wing, Elizabeth S.
LC no. 2003016298
ISBN 9780817382124
0817382127
081731315X
9780817313159
0817313141
9780817313142