On land and sea [[electronic resource] ] : Native American uses of biological resources in the West Indies / / Lee A. Newsom and Elizabeth S. Wing
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Newsom Lee A
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| Titolo: |
On land and sea [[electronic resource] ] : Native American uses of biological resources in the West Indies / / Lee A. Newsom and Elizabeth S. Wing
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| Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 578.6/3/089970729 |
| Soggetto topico: | Indians of the West Indies - Ethnobotany |
| Indians of the West Indies - Ethnozoology | |
| Indigenous peoples - Ecology - West Indies | |
| Human-plant relationships - West Indies | |
| Human-animal relationships - West Indies | |
| Plant remains (Archaeology) - West Indies | |
| Animal remains (Archaeology) - West Indies | |
| Soggetto geografico: | West Indies Antiquities |
| Altri autori: |
WingElizabeth S
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-301) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | During 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 b |
| Titolo autorizzato: | On land and sea |
| ISBN: | 0-8173-8212-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910782143503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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