03647nam 22007574a 450 991078214350332120200520144314.00-8173-8212-7(CKB)1000000000537503(EBL)438146(OCoLC)320323778(SSID)ssj0000363893(PQKBManifestationID)12082156(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000363893(PQKBWorkID)10394585(PQKB)11077037(SSID)ssj0000214601(PQKBManifestationID)11166427(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000214601(PQKBWorkID)10167180(PQKB)11371612(MdBmJHUP)muse8888(Au-PeEL)EBL438146(CaPaEBR)ebr10237168(MiAaPQ)EBC438146(EXLCZ)99100000000053750320030718d2004 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOn land and sea[electronic resource] Native American uses of biological resources in the West Indies /Lee A. Newsom and Elizabeth S. WingTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20041 online resource (344 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-1314-1 0-8173-1315-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-301) and index.Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. An Introduction to Native American Uses of Biological Resources in the West Indies; 2. Environmental Setting; 3. Human Colonization of the West Indies; 4. Sources of Plant and Animal Samples and Methods Used to Study Them; 5. Southern Caribbean Region; 6. Lesser Antilles; 7. Greater Antilles and the Virgin Islands; 8. Bahamas Archipelago; 9. Toward a Synthetic Caribbean Paleoethnobiology; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; References Cited; IndexDuring the vast stretches of early geologic time, the islands of the Caribbean archipelago separated from continental land masses, rose and sank many times, merged with and broke from other land masses, and then by the mid-Cenozoic period settled into the current pattern known today. By the time Native Americans arrived, the islands had developed complex, stable ecosystems. The actions these first colonists took on the landscape-timber clearing, cultivation, animal hunting and domestication, fishing and exploitation of reef species-affected fragile land and sea biotic communities in bIndians of the West IndiesEthnobotanyIndians of the West IndiesEthnozoologyIndigenous peoplesEcologyWest IndiesHuman-plant relationshipsWest IndiesHuman-animal relationshipsWest IndiesPlant remains (Archaeology)West IndiesAnimal remains (Archaeology)West IndiesWest IndiesAntiquitiesIndians of the West IndiesEthnobotany.Indians of the West IndiesEthnozoology.Indigenous peoplesEcologyHuman-plant relationshipsHuman-animal relationshipsPlant remains (Archaeology)Animal remains (Archaeology)578.6/3/089970729Newsom Lee A1572046Wing Elizabeth S205003MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782143503321On land and sea3846654UNINA