Tibes
Subtitle: people, power, and ritual at the center of the cosmos
By: edited by L. Antonio Curet and Lisa M. Stringer.
Contributors: Curet, L. Antonio, 1960-; Stringer, Lisa M., 1966-
Series: Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780817316860; 9780817355791; 9780817382520
Subjects: Centro Ceremonial Indígena de Tibes (Tibes, Ponce, P.R.); Indians of the West Indies -- Puerto Rico -- Tibes (Ponce) -- Antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Puerto Rico -- Tibes (Ponce); Indians of the West Indies -- Puerto Rico -- Tibes (Ponce) -- Rites and ceremonies; Sacred space -- Puerto Rico -- Tibes (Ponce) -- History; Landscapes -- Social aspects -- Puerto Rico -- Tibes (Ponce) -- History; Power (Social sciences) -- Puerto Rico -- Tibes (Ponce) -- History; Social classes -- Puerto Rico -- Tibes (Ponce) -- History; Tibes (Ponce, P.R.) -- Antiquities; Tibes (Ponce, P.R.) -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / L. Antonio Curet and Lisa M. Stringer; title: Tibes : history and first archaeological work / Pedro Alvarado Zayas and L. Antonio Curet; title: The archaeological project of the Ceremonial Center of Tibes / L. Antonio Curet; title: Geophysical prospection at the ceremonial site of Tibes, 1998-2001 / Daniel Welch; title: Paleoethnobotanical research at Tibes / Lee A. Newsom; title: Animal use at the Tibes Ceremonial Center / Susan D. deFrance, Carla S. Hadden, Michelle J. LeFebvre, and Geoffrey DuChemin; title: Lithics from the Tibes ceremonial site : analysis of the stone artifacts from the 1996-1999 field seasons / Jeffery B. Walker; title: Boulder lithology survey at the Tibes ceremonial site / Scott Rice-Snow, Melissa J. Castor, Andrew K. Castor, Jeffry D. Grigsby, Richard H. Fluegeman, and L. Antonio Curet; title: Ancient bones tell stories : osteobiography of human remains from Tibes / Edwin F. Crespo-Torres; title: Bone chemistry and paleodiet at the Ceremonial Center of Tibes / William J. Pestle; title: Tibes and the social landscape : integration, interaction, and the community / Joshua M. Torres; title: Plazas, bateys, and ceremonial centers : the social and cultural context of Tibes in the ancient history of Puerto Rico / L. Antonio Curet and Joshua M. Torres.