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The Oxford handbook of Caribbean archaeology / edited by William F. Keegan, Corinne L. Hofman, and Reniel Rodrâiguez Ramos.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Description
1 online resource (xx, 594 p. ) ill., maps ;
Details
Subject(s)
Archaeology
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Caribbean Area
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Indigenous peoples of the West Indies
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Antiquities
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Caribbean Area
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Archaeology
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West Indies
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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West Indies
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Caribbean Area
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Antiquities
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West Indies
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Antiquities
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West Indies
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Civilization
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Indigenous Studies
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Editor of compilation
Keegan, William F.
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Hofman, Corinne Lisette, 1959-
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Rodrâiguez Ramos, Reniel
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Series
Oxford handbooks in archaeology.
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Summary note
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.
Notes
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Description based on print version record.
Language note
English
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 Taíno 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 in the pre-Columbian Caribbean / 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.
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Caribbean archaeology
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ISBN
9780199971435
0199971439
LCCN
2012009019
OCLC
857067125
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