Archaeology and geoinformatics [[electronic resource] ] : case studies from the Caribbean / / edited by Basil A. Reid

• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (251 p.)
• Disciplina: 972.900285
• Soggetto topico: Indians of the West Indies - Antiquities; Archaeological geology - Caribbean Area; Excavations (Archaeology) - Geographic information systems - Caribbean Area
• Soggetto geografico: Caribbean Area Antiquities
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ReidBasil A. <1961->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-224) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Caribbean : a continent divided by water / Joshua M. Torres and Reniel Rodríguez Ramos -- Developing weights-of-evidence predictive models for the cultural resource management of pre-columbian sites in Trinidad / Basil A. Reid -- Forward planning : the utilization of GIS in the management of archaeological resources in Barbados / Kevin Farmer -- Developing an archaeological information system for Trinidad and Tobago / Bheshem Ramlal and Basil A. Reid -- Maps, matricals, and material remains : an archaeological GIS of late-eighteenth-century historic sites on St. John, Danish West Indies / Douglas V. Armstrong ... [et al.] -- Understanding Nevis : GPS and archaeological field survey in a postcolonial landscape / Roger H. Leech -- The use of imagery to locate Taino sites in Jamaica in a GIS environment / Parris Lyew-Ayee and Ivor Conolley -- Geophysics and the search for Raleigh's outpost on Trinidad / Eric Klingelhofer -- Geophysics and volcanic islands : resistivity and gradiometry on St. Eustatius / R. Grant Gilmore III -- Postscript: Archaeology and geoinformatics from a Caribbeanist perspective / Basil A. Reid.
• Sommario/riassunto: Addressing the use of geoinformatics in Caribbean archaeology, this volume is based on case studies drawn from specific island territories, namely, Barbados, St. John, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Nevis, St. Eustatius, and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as inter-island interaction and landscape conceptualization in the Caribbean region. Geoinformatics is especially critical within the Caribbean where site destruction is intense due to storm surges, hurricanes, ocean and riverine erosion, urbanization, industrialization, and agriculture, as well as commercial development along the very waterfronts
• Titolo autorizzato: Archaeology and geoinformatics
• ISBN: 0-8173-8053-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454735803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.