Island shores, distant pasts
Subtitle: archaeological and biological approaches to the pre-Columbian settlement of the Caribbean
By: edited by Scott M. Fitzpatrick and Ann H. Ross ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen
Series: Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past : local, regional, and global perspectives
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813035222
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Crossing the Caribbean divide : integrating anthropological analyses in the study of pre-Columbian cultures / Scott M. Fitzpatrick and Ann H. Ross; title: Island shores and "long pauses" / William F. Keegan; title: Rethinking time in Caribbean archaeology : the Puerto Rico case study / Reniel Rodríguez Ramos, Joshua M. Torres, and José R. Oliver; title: The history of Amerindian mitochondrial DNA lineages in Puerto Rico / Juan C. Martínez-Cruzado; title: Pre-Columbian archaeology of Cuba : a study of site distribution patterns and radiocarbon chronologies / Jago Cooper; title: A morphometric approach to Taíno biological distance in the Caribbean / Ann H. Ross and Douglas H. Ubelaker; title: Crossing the Guadeloupe Passage in the Archaic Age / Richard T. Callaghan; title: Interisland dynamics : evidence for human mobility at the site of Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe / Menno L.P. Hoogland, Corinne L. Hofman, and Raphaël G. A.M. Panhuysen; title: The southward route hypothesis : examining Carriacou's chronological position in Antillean prehistory / Scott M. Fitzpatrick, Michiel Kappers, and Christina M. Giovas; title: Coastal waves and island hopping : a genetic view of Caribbean prehistory and New World colonization / Theodore G. Schurr; title: Epilogue: Linking Caribbean shores, visualizing the past / Scott M. Fitzpatrick.