Ancient Borinquen
Subtitle: archaeology and ethnohistory of native Puerto Rico
By: edited by Peter E. Siegel.
Contributors: Siegel, Peter E.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press; University Alabama Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
Subjects: Indians of the West Indies -- Puerto Rico -- Antiquities.; Indians of the West Indies -- Puerto Rico -- History.; Ethnohistory -- Puerto Rico.; Puerto Rico -- Antiquities.
Description: Annotation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The crab-shell dichotomy revisited : the lithics speak out / Reniel Rodríguez Ramos; title: The Paso del Indio Site, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico : a progress report / Jeff Walker; title: Environmental and cultural correlates in the West Indies : a view from Puerto Rico / Peter E. Siegel ... [et al.]; title: The status of paleoethnobiological research on Puerto Rico and adjacent islands / Susan D. deFrance and Lee A. Newsom; title: Ceramic-age dietary patterns in Puerto Rico : stable isotopes and island biogeography / Anne V. Stokes; title: Deconstructing the polity : communities and social landscapes of the ceramic-age peoples of South Central Puerto Rico / Joshua M. Torres; title: The proto-Taíno monumental Cemís of Caguana : a political-religious "manifesto" / José R. Oliver; title: Rivers of stone, rivers within stone : rock art in ancient Puerto Rico / Peter G. Roe; title: The aftermath of conquest : the Indians of Puerto Rico during the early sixteenth century / Karen F. Anderson-Córdova; title: Multiple visions of an island's past and some thoughts for future directions in Puerto Rican prehistory / Peter E. Siegel.