Cuban archaeology in the Caribbean /edited by Ivan Roksandic.

Cuban archaeology in the Caribbean /edited by Ivan Roksandic. - Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource : illustrations, maps - Florida museum of natural history : Ripley P. Bullen series .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Cuba and the Greater Antilles / The role of the Nicaraguan rise in the early peopling of the Greater Antilles / An archaeological overview of the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua / People and plants in the precontact Caribbean: the view from Canímar Abajo, Cuba / Diagnosis of the processing methods of starch-rich foods in archaeological artifacts: an experimental model / Sedentism and mobility patterns at Canímar Abajo Cemetery, Matanzas, Cuba: paleodemographic evidence / Communities in contact: health and paleodemography at el Chorro de Maíta, Cuba / A Pre-Columbian dental modification complex at the site of Canímar Abajo, Matanzas, Cuba / Isotopic evidence of variations in subsistence strategies and food consumption patterns among "fisher-gatherer" populations of western Cuba / Human mobility and dietary patterns in precolonial Puerto Rico: integrating multiple isotope data / Food preparation and dietary preferences among the Arawak aboriginal communities of Cuba / Indians in Cuba: from pre-Columbian villages to the colonial world / Los Indios de Campeche: the Maya diaspora and the Mesoamerican presence in colonial Cuba / Recent advances in the archaeology of the Greater Antilles: some final remarks / Ivan Roksandic -- Ivan Roksandic -- Sagrario Balladares Navarro and Leonardo Lechado Ríos -- David G. Smith -- Roberto Rodríguez Suárez, Jorge Ezra Cruz Palma, and Guillermo Acosta Ochoa -- Mirjana Roksandic -- Darlene A. Weston and Roberto Valcárcel Rojas -- Kaitlynn Alarie and Mirjana Roksandic -- Yadira Chinique de Armas, Mirjana Roksandic, Roberto Rodríguez Suárez, David G. Smith, and William M. Buhay -- Jason E. Laffoon -- Ulises M. González Herrera -- Roberto Valcárcel Rojas -- Jason M. Yaremko -- Reniel Rodríguez Ramos.

Through analysis of early agriculture, linguistics, burial customs, dental modification, pottery production, dietary patterns, starch grain analysis and more, this volume presents a solid theory of mainland migration into the Caribbean.



9781683400127


Excavations (Archaeology)--Caribbean Area.
Archaeology--Cuba.
Archaeology--Caribbean Area.


Electronic Books.

F2172 / .C833 2016