University of Alabama Press, 2008. — 320 p. — (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory). — ISBN: 0817315969, 9780817315962, 0817354662, 9780817354664, 9780817382551. Much of Jamaican prehistoric research—like that in the rest of the Caribbean basin—has been guided by at least a subconscious attempt to allow prehistoric native peoples to find their places within the charts...
Sidestone Press, 2019. — 429 p. — (Taboui 6). The early-modern Venezuelan Caribbean did not lure seafarers with the saccharine delights of cane sugar but with the preserving qualities of solar sea salt. In this book, the historical archaeological study of this salty commodity offers a unique entryway into the hitherto unknown maritime mobilities and daily lives of the seafarers...
Sidestone Press, 2013. — 284 p. Aujourd’hui, les traces de la présence amérindienne en Martinique constituent, en dehors des pétroglyphes de la forêt de Montravail et des pièces exposées dans les musées de l’île, un patrimoine invisible. Cependant, avant son invasion par les européens cette île a bien été pendant au moins 1500 ans terre amérindienne. Pendant dix années, entre...
Sidestone Press, 2014. — 368 p. — (Taboui 2). La notion d’« espace » est un concept clé de la disciple archéologique. Les vestiges mobiliers ou immobiliers trouvés en fouille sont les reflets matériels des aspects politiques, sociaux, économiques et culturels des populations étudiées. De fait, l’espace archéologique est socialement construit. L’agencement des vestiges dans...
Oxbow Books, 2020. — 208 p. 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 island’s population to...
Oxbow Books, 2020. — 208 p. 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 island’s population to...
University Alabama Press, 2005. — 288 p. According to the European chronicles, at the time of contact, the Greater Antilles were inhabited by the Taino or Arawak Indians, who were organized in hierarchical societies. Since its inception Caribbean archaeology has used population as an important variable in explaining many social, political, and economic processes such as...
Monografía. — La Habana: Editorial Gente Nueva, 1986. — 174 p. Este libro sobre la arqueología de Cuba, satislace una necesidad de nuestra cultura. Estudiar las más remotas raíces de las culturas ancestrales desarrolladas en nuestro medio, será siempre interesante para las nuevas generaciones, a más de útil. Todo lo que iortalezca la identidad de nuestra patria ha de redundar en...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994. — 160 p. Art and Archaeology of Pre-Columbian Cuba presents a number of works, sixteen reproduced in color, by pre-Columbian artists from the archipelago, covering three millennia of human life in Cuba. Living under difficult conditions, the first Cubans sculpted their emotions, fears, and hopes on stone, shell, wood, and bones. Much of their...
Sidestone Press, 2019. — 444 p. — (Taboui 5). This volume provides one of the most comprehensive overviews of the archaeology of a single Caribbean island yet published. Drawing together scholars from the Caribbean, north America and Europe, all working from a range of disciplines within the broader scope of archaeology, and drawing upon recent and innovative fieldwork, the...
The University of Alabama Press, 2011. — 345 p. — (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory). — ISBN: 0817356487, 9780817356484, 9780817317263, 9780817385309. As a source of colonial wealth and a crucible for global culture, Jamaica has had a profound impact on the formation of the modern world system. From the island's economic and military importance to the colonial empires it...
With a Preface by L. Antonio Curet. — University of Alabama Press, 2009. — 234 p. A valuable recounting of the first formal archaeological excavations in Puerto Rico. Originally published as the Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1907, this book was praised in an article in American Anthropologist as...
University Press of Florida, 2010. — 246 p. For more than a century, archaeologists and anthropologists have searched for evidence of when and how peoples first settled the Caribbean islands. Research on this area is pivotal for understanding the migration of peoples in the New World and how small and large populations develop biologically and culturally through time. This unique...
University of Alabama Press, 2009. — 304 p. This compilation, by an international grouping of scholars, focuses on the nature of Caribbean rock art or rock graphics and makes clear the region's substantial and distinctive rock art tradition. Thorough and comparative, it includes data on the history of rock graphic research, the nature of the assemblages (image numbers, types,...
Sidestone Press, 2019. — 320 p. Early Settlers of the Insular Caribbean: Dearchaizing the Archaic offers a comprehensive coverage of the most recent advances in interdisciplinary research on the early human settling of the Caribbean islands. It covers the time span of the so-called Archaic Age and focuses on the Middle to Late Holocene period which - depending on specific case...
Sidestone Press, 2015. — 360 p. — (Taboui 3). Caribbean archaeological heritage is threatened by natural impacts but also increasingly by economic developments, often resulting from the tourist industry. The continuous construction of specific projects for tourists, accompanied by illegal practices such as looting and sand mining, have major impacts on the region’s...
Sidestone Press, 2016. — 116 p. This book tells the story of the indigenous inhabitants of Saba prior to European colonization, based on 30 years of archaeological research conducted by Leiden University in collaboration with the government and people of Saba. The pre-colonial history of Saba begins around 3800 years ago with the first fishers-foragers and plant managers...
Sidestone Press, 2011. — 514 p. Communities in Contact represents the outcome of the fourth international Leiden in the Caribbean congress entitled From Prehistory to Ethnography in the circum-Caribbean. The contributions included in this volume cover a wide range of topics from a variety of disciplines – archaeology, bioarchaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnography – revolving...
Brill, 2024. — 243 p. — (The Early Americas: History and Culture 12). How do contemporary communities in the Caribbean engage with their past? This book answers this by bringing local Caribbean voices to talk about archaeological heritage. Each chapter discusses how local researchers create bridges between archaeology, heritage, and communities in different Caribbean countries....
Sidestone Press, 2019. — 248 p. Cet ouvrage explore la transformation du paysage culturel de la région de Fort-Liberté sur le long terme. Il se base sur les traces de différents groupes sociaux façonnant le paysage culturel du lieu sur une longue période chronologique. Cette région renferme un patrimoine archéologique exceptionnel, sous la forme de vestiges amérindiens, de...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 332 p. 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...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 616 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–539230–2. The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology 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. Though these islands were never isolated from the surrounding mainland,...
Sidestone Press, 2014. — 180 p. — (Taboui 1). Les habitations-plantations constituent le creuset historique et symbolique où fut fondu l’alliage original que sont les cultures antillaises. Elles sont le berceau des sociétés créoles contemporaines qui y ont puisé tant leur forte parenté que leur diversité. Leur étude a été précocement le terrain de prédilection des historiens....
The University of Alabama Press, 2010. — 219 p. — (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series). Issues addressed by the 17 contributors represented in this collection include the long-term cultural and intellectual links between Florida and Cuba, which influence shared research goals today; the limitations of theoretical frameworks for archaeology defined in the wake of the...
Sidestone Press, 2020. — 275 p. — (Taboui 7). This work synthesizes art-historical and anthropological methods in the analysis of a large corpus of indigenous figure pendants, commonly called “amulets,” from the Greater Antilles and Bahamas. Figure pendants, ubiquitous in Caribbean collections, are small carvings of spirit beings perforated for suspension against the body. The...
Sidestone Press, 2020. — 258 p. Grand Narratives of colonization, especially ones related to the Spanish and Portuguese Americas, began circulating soon after 1492. The danger of these Grand Narratives is that they are often mistaken as reality and eclipse all other possible narrations pertaining to a particular place and/or time. As more Caribbean territories become...
Leiden University Press, 2008. — 182 p. This comprehensive volume analyzes shell implements, as well as flint and stone tools, from the pre-Columbian sites of Anse à la Gourde and Morel, Guadeloupe, drawing on archaeological, ethnographical, ethnohistorical and experimental data. The results of a functional analysis of all artifact categories are presented, as well as a...
The University of Alabama Press, 2010. — 731 p. — (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory). When originally published in German in 1924, this volume was hailed as the first modern, comprehensive archaeological overview of an emerging area of the world. Yes, the Caribbean islands had long been known and owned, occupied, or traded among by the economically advanced nations of the...
BAR Publishing, 2012. — 307 p. — (BAR International Series 2349). This study examines the development and decline of the 17th and 18th century English/British fortifications of Nevis, West Indies. The forts were first built in the early 17th century and continued to be developed and added to, reaching their maximum strength in the later 17th/early 18th centuries. Ten of the...
McGraw-Hill, 1972. — 395 p. Este estudio de la arqueología prehistórica de Santo Domingo, abarca únicamente esta isla, con todas las fallas de terreno que pudiesen presentarse, partiendo del fenómeno antillano como unidad, porque existen ya suficientes datos como para asegurar una continuidad cultural en todo el arco antillano. Existía la visión de las Antillas determinada, más...
Sidestone Press, 2018. — 340 p. Para las poblaciones indígenas la llegada de Colon al Caribe en 1492 significó una transformación y reestructuración de su mundo, incluyendo cambios a niveles culturales, sociales, económicos y políticos. En este trabajo se proponen modelos interpretativos sobre la transformación del paisaje indígena al colonial, a través de la aplicación de una...
Sidestone Press, 2014. — 331 p. The modern-day Caribbean is a stunningly diverse but also intricately interconnected geo-cultural region, resulting partly from the islands’ shared colonial histories and an increasingly globalizing economy. Perhaps more importantly, before the encounter between the New and Old World took place, the indigenous societies and cultures of the...
University Alabama Press, 2021. — 352 p. Real, Recent, or Replica: Precolumbian Caribbean Heritage as Art, Commodity, and Inspiration is the first book-length study of its kind to highlight the increasing commodification of Caribbean Precolumbian heritage. Amerindian art, including “Taíno” art, has become highly coveted by collectors, spurring a prolific and increasingly...
Sidestone Press, 2023. — 366 p. This book is about Lucayan legacies – the heritage of the people who made The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands (the Lucayan archipelago) their home from the 8th to the 16th centuries. This legacy is not simply the surviving physical record, consisting of artefacts of stone, shell and wood – it is a history entangled in the early antiquarian...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 239 p. — (The Early Colonial Settlement and Landscape of Nevis and St Kitts: Studies in the Historical Archaeology of the Eastern Caribbean 1). Searching for the 17th Century on Nevis is the first of a series of monographs dedicated to the archaeological investigation of the landscape, buildings and artefacts of the Eastern Caribbean by the Nevis Heritage...
University Alabama Press, 2009. — 154 p. — (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory). — ISBN: 978-0-8173-5534-0. This book seeks to debunk eleven popular and prevalent myths about Caribbean history. Using archaeological evidence, it corrects many previous misconceptions promulgated by history books and oral tradition as they specifically relate to the pre-Colonial and...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 124 p. — (BAR International Series 3019). Archaeologists consider Puerto Rico a key geographical location for categorizing native occupations in the Caribbean. However, lack of funding, minimal focus on petroglyph research, and limited historical records has reduced Puerto Rico’s contributions to the broader archaeological conversation. This book hopes...
University of Alabama Press, 2005. — 423 p. Native American cultures of Puerto Rico prior to the arrival of the Spanish in 1493. A book on the prehistory of a modern geopolitical entity is artificial. It is unlikely that prehistoric occupants recognized the same boundaries and responded to the same political forces that operated in the formation of current nations, states, or...
Sidestone Press, 2018. — 316 p. There is little evidence of the routes connecting Amerindian communities in the Caribbean prior to and just after 1492. Uncovering possible canoe routes between these communities can help to explain the structure, capabilities, and limitations of the physical links in their social and material networks. This book evaluates how routes connecting...
Sidestone Press, 2019. — 234 p. St. Eustatius, a small island in the northeastern Lesser Antilles, was one of the busiest ports in the eighteenth-century Atlantic World. Contested between the Dutch, French, and English, the island attracted thousands of ships a year and became one of the most cosmopolitan places in the New World. Moreover, the island played an important role in...
University of Florida Press, 2019. — 448 p. Abundantly illustrated, this volume is a pioneering survey of the ancient art of the entire Caribbean region. While previous studies have focused on the Greater Antilles - Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica - this is the first book also to include the islands of the eastern Caribbean and their ties to...
М.: Наука, 1976. — 232 с. Монография — первая в советской историографии обобщающая работа по истории коренного населения островов Карибского бассейна в доиспанский период. Автор с максимальной полнотой изучил все имеющиеся источники — исторические, этнографические и археологические и, систематизировав их с позиций исторического материализма, проследил пути развития культуры и...
Монография. — М.: Наука, 1976. — 232 с. Монография — первая в советской историографии обобщающая работа по истории коренного населения островов Карибского бассейна в доиспанский период. Автор с максимальной полнотой изучил все имеющиеся источники — исторические, этнографические и археологические и, систематизировав их с позиций исторического материализма, проследил пути развития...
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