Cuban Archaeology in the Caribbean [electronic resource] /
Roksandic, Ivan,author.
Gainesville : University of Florida Press,
[2016]
Through analysis of early agriculture, linguistics, burial customs, dental modification, pottery production, dietary patterns, starch grain analysis and more, this volume presents a solid theory of mainland migration into the Caribbean.
Specialized.
Previously issued in print: 2016.
Specialized.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Cuba and the Greater Antilles / Ivan Roksandic -- The role of the Nicaraguan rise in the early peopling of the Greater Antilles / Ivan Roksandic -- An archaeological overview of the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua / Sagrario Balladares Navarro and Leonardo Lechado Ríos -- People and plants in the precontact Caribbean: the view from Canímar Abajo, Cuba / David G. Smith -- Diagnosis of the processing methods of starch-rich foods in archaeological artifacts: an experimental model / Roberto Rodríguez Suárez, Jorge Ezra Cruz Palma, and Guillermo Acosta Ochoa -- Sedentism and mobility patterns at Canímar Abajo Cemetery, Matanzas, Cuba: paleodemographic evidence / Mirjana Roksandic -- Communities in contact: health and paleodemography at el Chorro de Maíta, Cuba / Darlene A. Weston and Roberto Valcárcel Rojas -- A Pre-Columbian dental modification complex at the site of Canímar Abajo, Matanzas, Cuba / Kaitlynn Alarie and Mirjana Roksandic -- Isotopic evidence of variations in subsistence strategies and food consumption patterns among "fisher-gatherer" populations of western Cuba / Yadira Chinique de Armas, Mirjana Roksandic, Roberto Rodríguez Suárez, David G. Smith, and William M. Buhay -- Human mobility and dietary patterns in precolonial Puerto Rico: integrating multiple isotope data / Jason E. Laffoon -- Food preparation and dietary preferences among the Arawak aboriginal communities of Cuba / Ulises M. González Herrera -- Indians in Cuba: from pre-Columbian villages to the colonial world / Roberto Valcárcel Rojas -- Los Indios de Campeche: the Maya diaspora and the Mesoamerican presence in colonial Cuba / Jason M. Yaremko -- Recent advances in the archaeology of the Greater Antilles: some final remarks / Reniel Rodríguez Ramos.
Through analysis of early agriculture, linguistics, burial customs, dental modification, pottery production, dietary patterns, starch grain analysis and more, this volume presents a solid theory of mainland migration into the Caribbean.
Description based on print version record.
Archaeology
Archaeology
Excavations (Archaeology)