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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778238003321

Titolo

Ancient Borinquen [[electronic resource] ] : archaeology and ethnohistory of native Puerto Rico / / edited by Peter E. Siegel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2005

ISBN

0-8173-8150-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (447 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SiegelPeter E

Disciplina

972.95/01

Soggetti

Indians of the West Indies - Puerto Rico - Antiquities

Indians of the West Indies - Puerto Rico - History

Ethnohistory - Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-414) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The crab-shell dichotomy revisited : the lithics speak out / Reniel Rodríguez Ramos -- The Paso del Indio Site, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico : a progress report / Jeff Walker -- Environmental and cultural correlates in the West Indies : a view from Puerto Rico / Peter E. Siegel ... [et al.] -- The status of paleoethnobiological research on Puerto Rico and adjacent islands / Susan D. deFrance and Lee A. Newsom -- Ceramic-age dietary patterns in Puerto Rico : stable isotopes and island biogeography / Anne V. Stokes -- Deconstructing the polity : communities and social landscapes of the ceramic-age peoples of South Central Puerto Rico / Joshua M. Torres -- The proto-Taíno monumental Cemís of Caguana : a political-religious "manifesto" / José R. Oliver -- Rivers of stone, rivers within stone : rock art in ancient Puerto Rico / Peter G. Roe -- The aftermath of conquest : the Indians of Puerto Rico during the early sixteenth century / Karen F. Anderson-Córdova -- Multiple visions of an island's past and some thoughts for future directions in Puerto Rican prehistory / Peter E. Siegel.

Sommario/riassunto

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