Pre-Columbian Jamaica
By: P. Allsworth-Jones.
Series: Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780817315962; 9780817354664
Subjects: Indians of the West Indies -- Jamaica; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Jamaica; Jamaica -- Antiquities
Description: "Pre-Columbian Jamaica represents the first substantial attempt to summarize the prehistoric evidence from the island in a single published account."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-307) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: History of investigation; title: General frameworks for Caribbean prehistory; title: Environment, fauna, and flora; title: Nature of the collection; title: Mapping the sites; title: Cultural variants; title: Petroglyphs and pictographs; title: Excavated sites and fauna; title: Burials and human remains; title: Conclusion.