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The Caribbean before Columbus is a new synthesis of the region's insular history. It combines the results of the authors' 55 years of archaeological research on almost every island in the three archipelagoes with that of their numerous colleagues and collaborators. The presentation operates on multiple scales: temporal, spatial, local, regional, environmental, social, and political. In addition, individual sites are used to highlight specific issues. For the first time, the complete histories of the major islands and island groups are elucidated, and new insights are gained through inter-island comparisons. The book takes a step back from current debates regarding nomenclature to offer a common foundation and the opportunity for a fresh beginning. In this regard the original concepts of series and ages provide structure, and the diversity of expressions subsumed by these concepts is embraced. Historical names, such as Taíno and Lucayan, are avoided. The authors challenge the long-held conventional wisdom concerning island colonization, societal organization, interaction and transculturation, inter- and intra-regional transactions (exchange), and other basic elements of cultural development and change. The emphasis is on those elements that unite the Bahamas, Lesser Antilles, and Greater Antilles as a culture area, and also on their divergent pathways. Colonization is presented as a multifaceted wave-like process. Continuing ties to the surrounding mainland are highlighted. Interactions between residents and new colonists are recognized, with individual histories contingent on these historical interactions. New solutions are offered to the "Huecoid problem" the "Carib problem," the "Taíno problem," and the evolution of social complexity, especially in Puerto Rico.These solutions required a rethinking of social organization and its expression on the landscape. There comes a time when the old foundation can no longer support the structure that was built upon it; this is that time.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures List of Tables 1. CARIBBEAN KALEIDOSCOPE The Caribbean Islands Different Ways of Seeing Far Tortuga The Name Game Ciboney and Guanahatebey Indios, Arawak, Taíno, Lucayan, Igneri Carib and Kalinago Changing Frames of Reference Underlying Structure 2. THE EARLIEST INHABITANTS FLAKED-STONE TOOL COMPLEXES Origins Cultural Characteristics Environmental Considerations Barrera-Mordán Site, Dominican Republic (representing circa 4000 BC) Lithic Age Assemblages GROUND-STONE TOOL COMPLEXES Banwari Trace Site, Trinidad (circa 5000 B.C) Origins Climate Change and Anthropogenic Landscapes Archaic Age Assemblages in the Greater Antilles Archaic Age Pottery European and Archaic Age Encounters Conclusions 3. THE EARLY CERAMIC AGE From Forest to Sea Creating Identities Trants Site, Montserrat (circa 400 BC to AD 500) Hacienda Grande Site, Puerto Rico (circa AD 150 to 500) Redefining the Early Ceramic Age Morel Site, Guadeloupe (circa 400 BC to AD 1400) Scale and Perspective Settlement Patterns Golden Rock Site, St. Eustatius (circa AD 600 to 850) Subsistence Economy Material Culture Sociopolitical Organization Cosmology Conclusions 4. POST-SALADOID PUERTO RICO Dispersion (circa AD 500 to 900) Crab/Shell Dichotomy A Plethora of Pottery Styles Population Growth and Settlement Patterns Río Tanamá 2 Site (cal AD 980 to 1490) Egalitarian, Hierarchical, or Heterarchical? Settlement Landscape and Community Structure (AD 950 and Beyond) Río Tanamá 1 site (circa cal AD 980 to 1490) Formalization of Exchange Plaza de Estrella, Tibes Ceremonial Center "Taíno" in Puerto Rico? Late Pottery Styles (Figure 4.6) Demography Stone-lined Courts and Plazas Cacicazgos Conclusions 5. MEILLACOID AND CHICOID WORLDS Foragers and Farmers Pottery Styles in Hispaniola An Island Divided El Cabo Site, Southeastern Dominican Republic (circa AD 600 to 1500) Northwestern Dominican Republic Meillacoid Revolution El Flaco Site, Northwestern Dominican Republic (circa AD 900 to 1500) Île à Rat Site, Haiti (circa AD 900 to 1500) Social Transformations Cacicazgos En Bas Saline, Haiti (circa AD 1492) Sweetness and Power Chicoid Expansion Conclusions 7. CUBA, THE BAHAMA ARCHIPELAGO, AND JAMAICA CUBA Preagroalfarera (Archaic Age) Protoagrícola (Incipient Agriculture) Agricultores Ceramistas (Ceramic Age) Regional Integration El Chorro de Maíta, Banes (circa AD 1200 to post AD 1600) Precious Metals Chicoid Influences Los Buchillones Site (circa AD 1220 to 1640) Conclusions BAHAMA ARCHIPELAGO Exploration and Colonization Coralie Site, Grand Turk, Turks & Caicos Islands (circa AD 700 to 1100) Small Islands Governors Beach Site, Grand Turk, Turks & Caicos Islands (circa AD 1100 to 1300) Permanent Settlement Late Ceramic Age MC-6, Middle Caicos, Turks & Caicos Islands (circa AD 1400 to 1600) The (Not So) Empty Islands JAMAICA Pottery Series as Distinct Cultures Paradise Park Sites, Westmoreland (circa AD 850 and AD 1430) Conclusions 8. LESSER ANTILLEAN NETWORKS The First Islanders Late Archaic Age Archaic Age Summary Neolithization of the Lesser Antilles Post-Saladoid Developments Anse à la Gourde Site, Guadeloupe (circa AD 450 to 1350) Windward Islands (Southern Lesser Antilles) Giraudy Site, Saint Lucia (circa AD 900 to 1500) Social and Political Networks Kelbey's Ridge 2 Site, Saba (circa AD 1350) Demographic Collapse after AD 1300 Morne Cybèle and Morne Souffler Sites, La Désirade (circa AD 1440 to 1460) Kalinago Archaeology Argyle Site, St. Vincent Discussion 8. CARIBBEAN Columbus and Cannibals Cannibal Raids or Indigenous Trade? Colonial Emergence Language Archaeological Research Indigenous Settlements Subsistence Social Organization Cacicazgos (Chiefdoms) Mythology and Religion Demography Early Colonial European Chroniclers and the French Missionaries Kaleidoscope: The Final Turn REFERENCES CITED


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780190605254
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 360
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 476 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0190605251
  • Publisher Date: 09 Mar 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Width: 229 mm


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