Format:
Online-Ressource (308 p.)
ISBN:
9780817315856
Series Statement:
Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory
Content:
Explores the application of a selected number of newly emerging methods and techniques. During the past few decades, Caribbean scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly developed and employed new methods and techniques for the study of archaeological materials. The aim of earlier research in the Caribbean was mainly to define typologies on the basis of pottery and lithic assemblages leading to the establishment of chronological charts for the region, and it was not until the 1980s that the use of technological and functional analyses of artifacts became widespread. The 1990s
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; List of Illustrations; 1. Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries and National Borders: New Methods and Techniques in the Study of Archaeological Materials from the Caribbean; PART I. PROVENANCE STUDIES; 2. In Tuneful Threefold: Combining Conventional Archaeological Methods, Archaeometric Techniques, and Ethnoarchaeological Research in the Study of Precolonial Pottery of the Caribbean; 3. American Gold and European Brass: Metal Objects and Indigenous Values in the Cemetery of El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba
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4. Chert Sourcing in the Northern Lesser Antilles: The Use of Geochemical Techniques in Discriminating Chert MaterialsPART I I. FUNCTIONAL STUDIES OF ARTIFACTS; 5. A New Material to View the Past: Dental Alginate Molds of Friable Artifacts; 6. Saladoid Lapidary Technology: New Methods for Investigating Stone Bead Drilling Techniques; 7. Lithic Technology: A Way to More Complex Diversity in Caribbean Archaeology; 8. Tool Use and Technological Choices: An Integral Approach toward Functional Analysis of Caribbean Tool Assemblages
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9. Understanding the Function of Coral Tools from Anse à la Gourde: An Experimental Approach10. The Signifi cance of Wear and Residue Studies: An Example from Plum Piece, Saba; 11. Starch Residues on Lithic Artifacts from Two Contrasting Contexts in Northwestern Puerto Rico: Los Muertos Cave and Vega de Nelo Vargas Farmstead; 12. The Burén in Precolonial Cuban Archaeology: New Information Regarding the Use of Plants and Ceramic Griddles during the Late Ceramic Age of Eastern Cuba Gathered through Starch Analysis; PART I I I. NEW TRENDS IN PALEOBOTANICAL AND PALEO-OSTEOLOGICAL RESEARCH
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13. Caribbean Paleoethnobotany: Present Status and New Horizons (Understanding the Evolution of an Indigenous Ethnobotany)14. New Evidence of Two Different Migratory Waves in the Circum-Caribbean Area during the Pre-Columbian Period from the Analysis of Dental Morphological Traits; 15. Tracing Human Mobility with 87Sr/86Sr at Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe; 16. Epilogue: The Correct Answer Requires the Right Question (and the Technology to Back It Up); References Cited; Contributors; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817381967
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817315856
Additional Edition:
Print version Crossing the Borders : New Methods and Techniques in the Study of Archaeology Materials from the Caribbean
Language:
English
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