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Archaeology and geoinformatics : case studies from the Caribbean /

Addressing the use of geoinformatics in Caribbean archaeology, this volume is based on case studies drawn from specific island territories, namely, Barbados, St. John, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Nevis, St. Eustatius, and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as inter-island interaction and landscape conceptualiza...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Reid, Basil A., 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2008.
Colección:Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The Caribbean : a continent divided by water / Joshua M. Torres and Reniel Rodríguez Ramos
  • Developing weights-of-evidence predictive models for the cultural resource management of pre-columbian sites in Trinidad / Basil A. Reid
  • Forward planning : the utilization of GIS in the management of archaeological resources in Barbados / Kevin Farmer
  • Developing an archaeological information system for Trinidad and Tobago / Bheshem Ramlal and Basil A. Reid
  • Maps, matricals, and material remains : an archaeological GIS of late-eighteenth-century historic sites on St. John, Danish West Indies / Douglas V. Armstrong [and others]
  • Understanding Nevis : GPS and archaeological field survey in a postcolonial landscape / Roger H. Leech
  • The use of imagery to locate Taino sites in Jamaica in a GIS environment / Parris Lyew-Ayee and Ivor Conolley
  • Geophysics and the search for Raleigh's outpost on Trinidad / Eric Klingelhofer
  • Geophysics and volcanic islands : resistivity and gradiometry on St. Eustatius / R. Grant Gilmore III
  • Postscript: Archaeology and geoinformatics from a Caribbeanist perspective / Basil A. Reid.