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Online-Ressource (349 p.)
ISBN:
9780817316860
Serie:
Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory
Inhalt:
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
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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
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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;
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ISBN 9780817382520
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ISBN 9780817316860
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tibes : People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos
Sprache:
Englisch
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