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Early settlers of the insular Caribbean : dearchaizing the Archaic /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hofman, Corinne L., 1959- (Editor ), Antczak, Andrzej T. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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