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    Ancient Borinquen : Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico (2005)
    Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press
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    gbv_1696430941
    Format: 1 online resource (447 pages)
    ISBN: 9780817381509
    Content: 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 cities. Yet, archaeologists traditionally have produced such volumes and they generally represent anchors for ongoing research in a specific region, in this case the island of Puerto Rico, its immediate neighbors, and the wider Caribbean basin. To varying degrees, this work addresses issues and draws data from beyond the boundaries of Puerto Rico because in prehistoric times the water between islands likely was not viewed as a boundary in our modern sense of the term. The last few decades have witnessed a growth of intense archaeological research on the island, from material culture in the form of lithics, ceramics, and rock art; to nutritional, architecture, and environmental studies; to rituals and social patterns; to the aftermath of Conquest. Ancient Borinquen provides a comprehensive overview of recent thinking, new data, syntheses, and insights into current Puerto Rican archaeology, and it reflects and illuminates similar concerns elsewhere in the West Indies, lowland South America, and Central America.
    Content: Intro -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 The Crab-Shell Dichotomy Revisited: The Lithics Speak Out -- 2 The Paso del Indio Site, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico: A Progress Report -- 3 Environmental and Cultural Correlates in the West Indies:A View from Puerto Rico -- 4 The Status of Paleoethnobiological Research on Puerto Ricoand Adjacent Islands -- 5 Ceramic-Age Dietary Patterns in Puerto Rico:Stable Isotopes and Island Biogeography -- 6 Deconstructing the Polity: Communities and Social Landscapes of the Ceramic-Age Peoples of South Central Puerto Rico -- 7 The Proto-Taíno Monumental Cemís of Caguana:A Political-Religious "Manifesto" -- 8 Rivers of Stone, Rivers within Stone: Rock Art in Ancient Puerto Rico -- 9 The Aftermath of Conquest:The Indians of Puerto Rico during the Early Sixteenth Century -- 10 Multiple Visions of an Island's Past and Some Thoughts for Future Directions in Puerto Rican Prehistory -- References Cited -- Contributors -- Index.
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    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780817314712
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780817314712
    Additional Edition: Print version Ancient Borinquen : Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books
    URL: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=438222
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    Archaeology and Geoinformatics : Case Studies from the Caribbean (2009)
    Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press
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    gbv_722906285
    Format: Online-Ressource (251 p.)
    ISBN: 9780817316013
    Series Statement: Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory
    Content: Addressing the use of geoinformatics in Caribbean archaeology, this volume is based on case studies drawn from specific island territories, namely, Barbados, St. John, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Nevis, St. Eustatius, and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as inter-island interaction and landscape conceptualization in the Caribbean region. Geoinformatics is especially critical within the Caribbean where site destruction is intense due to storm surges, hurricanes, ocean and riverine erosion, urbanization, industrialization, and agriculture, as well as commercial development along the very waterfronts that
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction Archaeology and Geoinformatics: Case Studies from the Caribbean; Part I: Archaeology, GIS, and Visibility Models; 1. The Caribbean: A Continent Divided by Water; Part II: Archaeology, GIS, and Cultural Resource Management; 2. Developing Weights-of-Evidence Predictive Models for the Cultural Resource Management of Pre-Columbian Sites in Trinidad; 3. Forward Planning: The Utilization of GIS in the Management of Archaeological Resources in Barbados; 4. Developing an Archaeological Information System for Trinidad and Tobago , Part III: Archaeology, GIS, Cartography, GPS, Satellite Imagery, Aerial Photography, and Photogrammetry5. Maps, Matricals, and Material Remains: An Archaeological GIS of Late-Eighteenth-Century Historic Sites on St. John, Danish West Indies; 6. Understanding Nevis: GPS and Archaeological Field Survey in a Postcolonial Landscape; 7. The Use of Imagery to Locate Taino Sites in Jamaica in a GIS Environment; Part IV: Archaeology and Geophysics; 8. Geophysics and the Search for Raleigh's Outpost on Trinidad; 9. Geophysics and Volcanic Islands: Resistivity and Gradiometry on St. Eustatius , ConclusionGlossary of Terms; References Cited; Contributors; Index;
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780817380533
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780817316013
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Archaeology and Geoinformatics : Case Studies from the Caribbean
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books
    URL: Volltext
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    Tibes : People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos (2009)
    Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press
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    UID:
    gbv_723079870
    Format: Online-Ressource (349 p.)
    ISBN: 9780817316860
    Series Statement: Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory
    Content: The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto Rico. The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and on the other two sides by hills, this approximately 10.5-acre site remains as fertile and productive today as when first occupied over 2,000 years ago. Such a rich region would have been a choice location for native peoples because of the diversity in all resources, from land, air, and sea--and also symbo
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Tibes: History and First Archaeological Work; 3. The Archaeological Project of the Ceremonial Center of Tibes; 4. Geophysical Prospection at the Ceremonial Site of Tibes, 1998-2001; 5. Paleoethnobotanical Research at Tibes; 6. Animal Use at the Tibes Ceremonial Center; 7. Lithics from the Tibes Ceremonial Site: Analysis of the Stone Artifacts from the 1996-1999 Field Seasons; 8. Boulder Lithology Survey at the Tibes Ceremonial Site; 9. Ancient Bones Tell Stories: Osteobiography of Human Remains from Tibes , 10. Bone Chemistry and Paleodiet at the Ceremonial Center of Tibes11. Tibes and the Social Landscape: Integration, Interaction, and the Community; 12. Plazas, Bateys, and Ceremonial Centers: The Social and Cultural Context of Tibes in the Ancient History of Puerto Rico; References Cited; Contributors; Index;
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780817382520
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780817316860
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tibes : People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books
    URL: Volltext
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