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Autore: | Curet L. Antonio <1960-> |
Titolo: | Caribbean paleodemography : population, culture history, and sociopolitical processes in ancient Puerto Rico / / L. Antonio Curet |
Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa : , : University of Alabama Press, , [2005] |
©2005 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
Disciplina: | 304.8/097295 |
Soggetto topico: | Indians of the West Indies - Puerto Rico - Antiquities |
Indians of the West Indies - Puerto Rico - Population | |
Indians of the West Indies - Puerto Rico - Migrations | |
Excavations (Archaeology) - Puerto Rico | |
Island archaeology - Puerto Rico | |
Demographic archaeology - Puerto Rico | |
Soggetto geografico: | Puerto Rico Antiquities |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-268) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Demography and ancient populations in the Caribbean -- Cultural and social history of ancient Puerto Rico -- Migration, colonization, and cultural change: an anthropological approach -- Ancient migrations in Puerto Rico: issues and possible explanations -- Intraisland population trends: regional analysis -- Population, carrying capacity, and population pressure: ancient demography of the Valley of Maunabo -- Paleodemography at the local level -- Conclusions: Paleodemography and Caribbean archaeology. |
Sommario/riassunto: | According to the European chronicles, at the time of contact, the Greater Antilles were inhabited by the Tainos or Arawak Indians, who were organized in hierarchical societies. Since its inception Caribbean archaeology has used population as an important variable in explaining many social, political, and economic processes such as migration, changes in subsistence systems, and the development of institutionalized social stratification. In Caribbean Paleodemography, L. Antonio Curet argues that population has been used casually by Caribbean archaeologists and proposes more rigorous and promising |
Titolo autorizzato: | Caribbean paleodemography |
ISBN: | 0-8173-8344-1 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910813966903321 |
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