Stone Artefact Production and Exchange Among the Lesser Antilles
Title | Stone Artefact Production and Exchange Among the Lesser Antilles PDF eBook |
Author | Sebastiaan Knippenberg |
Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9087280084 |
This archaeological study reconstructs Pre-Columbian exchange networks in the Lesser Antilles based on lithic artefact distributions among the different islands.
Stone Artefact Production and Exchange Among the Northern Lesser Antilles
Title | Stone Artefact Production and Exchange Among the Northern Lesser Antilles PDF eBook |
Author | Sebastiaan Knippenberg |
Publisher | |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789090207254 |
Stone Artefact Production and Exchange Among the Northern Lessen [sic] Antilles
Title | Stone Artefact Production and Exchange Among the Northern Lessen [sic] Antilles PDF eBook |
Author | Sebastiaan Knippenberg |
Publisher | |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Antilles, Lesser |
ISBN |
Archaeological Investigations on Guadeloupe, French West Indies
Title | Archaeological Investigations on Guadeloupe, French West Indies PDF eBook |
Author | Martijn M. van den Bel |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2021-09-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000452441 |
Comprising 20 scientific contributions to the archaeology of Guadeloupe, French West Indies, this volume places the latter Caribbean Island in the spotlight by presenting the results of four contemporaneous archaeological sites. By means of these four sites, this book explores a variety of issues contemplating the transition from the Early to the Late Ceramic Age in the Lesser Antilles. Studies of pre-Columbian material culture (ceramics, lithics, faunal, shell and human bone remains) are combined with additional microanalyses (starch and phytolith analyses, micromorphology and thin sections) to sort out the processes that triggered the cultural transition just before the end of the first millennium CE. The multidisciplinary approach to address these sites Saladoid shows the current state of affairs on project-led archaeology in the French West Indies and should be of great value to both researchers and students of Caribbean archaeology, material cultures, zooarchaeology, environmental studies, historical ecology, and other related fields.
The Caribbean before Columbus
Title | The Caribbean before Columbus PDF eBook |
Author | William F. Keegan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2017-01-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0190647353 |
The islands of the Caribbean are remarkably diverse, environmentally and culturally. They range from low limestone islands barely above sea level to volcanic islands with mountainous peaks; from large islands to small cays; from islands with tropical rainforests to those with desert habitats. Today's inhabitants have equally diverse culture histories. The islands are home to a mosaic of indigenous communities and to the descendants of Spanish, French, Dutch, English, Swedish, Danish, Irish, African, East Indian, Chinese, Syrian, Seminole and other nationalities who settled there during historic times. The islands are now being homogenized, all to create a standard experience for the Caribbean tourist. There is a similar attempt to homogenize the Caribbean's pre-Columbian past. It was assumed that every new prehistoric culture had developed out of the culture that preceded it. We now know that far more complicated processes of migration, acculturation, and accommodation occurred. Furthermore, the overly simplistic distinction between the "peaceful Arawak" and the "cannibal Carib," which forms the structure for James Michener's Caribbean, still dominates popular notions of precolonial Caribbean societies. This book documents the diversity and complexity that existed in the Caribbean prior to the arrival of Europeans, and immediately thereafter. The diversity results from different origins, different histories, different contacts between the islands and the mainland, different environmental conditions, and shifting social alliances. Organized chronologically, from the arrival of the first humans-the paleo-Indians-in the sixth millennium BC to early contact with Europeans, The Caribbean before Columbus presents a new history of the region based on the latest archaeological evidence. The authors also consider cultural developments on the surrounding mainland, since the islands' history is a story of mobility and exchange across the Caribbean Sea, and possibly the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Straits. The result is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of the richly complex cultures who once inhabited the six archipelagoes of the Caribbean.
The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology PDF eBook |
Author | William F. Keegan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 617 |
Release | 2013-03-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195392302 |
This volume brings together examples of the best research to address the complexity of the Caribbean past.
An Archaeological History of Montserrat, West Indies
Title | An Archaeological History of Montserrat, West Indies PDF eBook |
Author | John F. Cherry |
Publisher | Oxbow Books |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2020-03-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1789253934 |
Montserrat is a small island in the Leeward islands of the eastern Caribbean and at present a British Overseas Territory. It has suffered greatly in recent times, first from the devastations of Hurricane Hugo in 1989 and since 1995 from the still-ongoing eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano that has caused two-thirds of the islands population to emigrate and left half the island a dangerous exclusion zone. Archaeological research here began only in the late 1970s, but work over the past four decades has now made it possible to present an archaeological history of Montserrat, from the earliest known traces of human activity on the island about 5,000 years ago to the present. This book draws on all the available archaeological evidence (including that from the co-authors own island-wide survey and excavation project since 2010), as well as newly available archival documents, to trace this little islands long history and heritage. This is not the story of an isolated and remote island: Montserrat is shown rather to be a place intricately connected to the flows of people and goods that have travelled between islands and across the Atlantic at various points in time, both Amerindian and historical. Despite its small size and seeming irrelevance, Montserrat has in fact always been networked into regional and global systems of connectivity. An underlying theme of this volume is resilience. It presents insights from the archaeological and documentary evidence on how the islands inhabitants have coped with often adverse conditions throughout the course of its history hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, slavery, disease, invasions, and impoverishment all while remaining proudly connected to heritage that celebrates the accomplishments of island residents.