The earliest inhabitants
Subtitle: the dynamics of the Jamaican Taíno
By: edited by Lesley-Gail Atkinson
Contributors: Atkinson, Lesley-Gail
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press; University Press of the West Indies
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Jamaica
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Taino Indians -- Jamaica; Taino Indians -- Jamaica -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-213)
Table of contents: title: The development of Jamaican prehistory / William F. Keegan and Lesley-Gail Atkinson; title: The Taino settlement of the Kingston area / Philip Allsworth-Jones ... [et al.]; title: The Pre-Columbian site of Chancery Hall, St Andrew / Philip Allsworth-Jones ... [et al.]; title: Excavations at Green Castle, St Mary / Philip Allsworth-Jones and Kit Wesler; title: The impact of land-based development on Taino archaeology in Jamaica / Andrea Richards; title: Notes on the natural history of Jamaica / Wendy A. Lee; title: The exploitation and transformation of Jamaica's natural vegetation / Lesley-Gail Atkinson; title: Early Arawak subsistence strategies: the Rodney's House site of Jamaica / Sylvia Scudder; title: Petrography and source of some Arawak rock artefacts from Jamaica / M. John Roobol and James W. Lee; title: Jamaican Taino pottery / Norma Rodney-Harrack; title: Jamaican redware / James W. Lee; title: Taino ceramics from post-contact Jamaica / Robyn P. Woodward; title: The petroglyphs of Jamaica / James W. Lee; title: Zemis, trees and symbolic landscapes: three Taino carvings from Jamaica / Nicholas Saunders and Dorrick Gray