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Cuban Archaeology in the Caribbean /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Roksandic, Ivan (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.