| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 594 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Oxford handbooks |
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Oxford handbooks
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| Contents |
Caribbean archaeology in historical perspective / Peter E. Siegel -- The climatic context for pre-Columbian archaeology in the Caribbean / Jago Cooper -- Indigenous languages of the Caribbean / Julian Granberry -- The "classic" Taíno / William F. Keegan -- Kinship and social organization in the pre-Hispanic Caribbean / Bradley E. Ensor -- Ethnohistory of the Caribs / Louis Allaire -- The Arawak diaspora : perspectives from South America / Michael Heckenberger -- The humanization of the insular Caribbean / Reniel Rodríguez Ramos, Jaime R. Pagán-Jiménez, and Corinne L. Hofman -- Gateway to the mainland : Trinidad and Tobago / Arie Boomert -- Isthmo-Antillean engagements / Reniel Rodríguez Ramos -- Huecoid culture and the Antillean agroalfarero (farmer-potter) period / Luis A. Chanlatte Baik -- The Saladoid / Benoît Bérard -- The southward route hypothesis / Scott M. Fitzpatrick -- The post-Saladoid in the Lesser Antilles (AD 600/800-1492) / Corinne L. Hofman -- Meillacoid and the origins of classic Taino society / Peter T. Sinelli -- Archaeological practice, archaic presence, and interaction in Indigenous societies in Cuba / Jorge Ulloa Hung and Roberto Valcárcel Rojas -- Jamaica / Kit W. Wesler -- The Bahama archipelago / Mary Jane Berman, Perry L. Gnivecki, and Michael P. Pateman -- Archaeological views of Caribbean seafaring / Richard T. Callaghan -- An archaeology of spatiality in the Caribbean / Christopher F. Altes -- Exchange as a social contract : a perspective from the microscale / Joost Morsink -- Studying pre-Columbian interaction networks : mobility and exchange / Angus A.A. Mol -- Rethinking chiefdoms in the Caribbean / Joshua M. Torres -- Household archaeology / Alice V.M. Samson -- Zooarchaeology in the Caribbean : current research and future prospects / Susan D. deFrance -- Human-plant dynamics in the precolonial Antilles : a synthetic update / Jaime R. Pagán Jiménez -- Stable isotope analysis of paleodiet in the Caribbean / William J. Pestle -- Paleomobility research in Caribbean contexts : new perspectives from isotope analysis / Jason E. Laffoon -- The study of pre-Columbian human remains in the Caribbean archipelago : from descriptive osteology to a bioarchaeological approach / Edwin F. Crespo-Torres, Hayley L. Mickleburgh, and Roberto Varcárcel Rojas -- From corpse taphonomy to mortuary behavior in the Caribbean : a case study from the Lesser Antilles / Menno L.P. Hoogland and Corinne L. Hofman -- The DNA evidence for the human colonization and spread across the Americas : implications for the peopling of the Caribbean / Juan Martínez Cruzado -- Rock art of the Caribbean / Michele H. Hayward, Lesley-Gail Atkinson, and Michael A. Cinquino, with contributions by Gérard Richard -- Metals in the indigenous societies of the insular Caribbean / Roberto Valcárcel Rojas and Marcos Martinón Torres -- New directions in Caribbean historical archaeology / Douglas V. Armstrong -- Transcending oppression : contributions of Maroon heritage to freedom in world history / E. Kofi Agorsah -- The construction of an identity and the politics of remembering / Carmen A. Laguer Díaz -- Caribbean archaeology in the next 50 years / Samuel M. Wilson |
| Summary |
This title provides an overview of archaeological investigations in the insular Caribbean, understood here as the islands whose shores surround the Caribbean Sea and the islands of the Bahama Archipelago. The handbook brings together examples of the best research conducted by scholars from across the globe to address the complexity of the Caribbean past |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Archaeology -- Caribbean Area
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Indians of the West Indies -- Antiquities.
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Caribbean Area
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Archaeology -- West Indies
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- West Indies
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Antiquities
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Archaeology
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Civilization
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Indians of the West Indies -- Antiquities
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Regions & Countries - Americas.
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History & Archaeology.
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Latin America.
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| SUBJECT |
Caribbean Area -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004014529
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West Indies -- Antiquities
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West Indies -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146188
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| Subject |
Caribbean Area
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West Indies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Keegan, William F., 1955- editor
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Hofman, Corinne L., 1959- editor
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Rodríguez Ramos, Reniel, editor
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| LC no. |
2012009019 |
| ISBN |
9780199971435 |
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0199971439 |
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