Archaeology and geoinformatics
Subtitle: case studies from the Caribbean
By: edited by Basil A. Reid.
Contributors: Reid, Basil A., 1961-
Series: Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780817316013; 9780817354701; 9780817380533
Subjects: Indians of the West Indies -- Antiquities; Archaeological geology -- Caribbean Area; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Geographic information systems -- Caribbean Area; Caribbean Area -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Caribbean : a continent divided by water / Joshua M. Torres and Reniel Rodríguez Ramos; title: Developing weights-of-evidence predictive models for the cultural resource management of pre-columbian sites in Trinidad / Basil A. Reid; title: Forward planning : the utilization of GIS in the management of archaeological resources in Barbados / Kevin Farmer; title: Developing an archaeological information system for Trinidad and Tobago / Bheshem Ramlal and Basil A. Reid; title: Maps, matricals, and material remains : an archaeological GIS of late-eighteenth-century historic sites on St. John, Danish West Indies / Douglas V. Armstrong ... [et al.]; title: Understanding Nevis : GPS and archaeological field survey in a postcolonial landscape / Roger H. Leech; title: The use of imagery to locate Taino sites in Jamaica in a GIS environment / Parris Lyew-Ayee and Ivor Conolley; title: Geophysics and the search for Raleigh's outpost on Trinidad / Eric Klingelhofer; title: Geophysics and volcanic islands : resistivity and gradiometry on St. Eustatius / R. Grant Gilmore III; title: Postscript: Archaeology and geoinformatics from a Caribbeanist perspective / Basil A. Reid.