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Cuban Archaeology in the Caribbean
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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...
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.
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- Creator
- edited by Ivan Roksandic
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2016]
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
- ISBNs
- 9780804795746, 1683400259, 9781683400127, 9781683400028, 9781683400257, 168340002X, 1683400127
- OCLC
- ocn959277772, ocn945232117
- Previously issued in print: 2016.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Cuba and the Greater Antilles / Ivan Roksandic -- The role of the Nicaraguan rise in the early peopling of the Greater Antilles / Ivan Roksandic -- An archaeological overview of the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua / Sagrario Balladares Navarro and Leonardo Lechado Ríos -- People and plants in the precontact Caribbean: the view from Canímar Abajo, Cuba / David G. Smith -- Diagnosis of the processing methods of starch-rich foods in archaeological artifacts: an experimental model / Roberto Rodríguez Suárez, Jorge Ezra Cruz Palma, and Guillermo Acosta Ochoa -- Sedentism and mobility patterns at Canímar Abajo Cemetery, Matanzas, Cuba: paleodemographic evidence / Mirjana Roksandic -- Communities in contact: health and paleodemography at el Chorro de Maíta, Cuba / Darlene A. Weston and Roberto Valcárcel Rojas -- A Pre-Columbian dental modification complex at the site of Canímar Abajo, Matanzas, Cuba / Kaitlynn Alarie and Mirjana Roksandic -- Isotopic evidence of variations in subsistence strategies and food consumption patterns among "fisher-gatherer" populations of western Cuba / Yadira Chinique de Armas, Mirjana Roksandic, Roberto Rodríguez Suárez, David G. Smith, and William M. Buhay -- Human mobility and dietary patterns in precolonial Puerto Rico: integrating multiple isotope data / Jason E. Laffoon -- Food preparation and dietary preferences among the Arawak aboriginal communities of Cuba / Ulises M. González Herrera -- Indians in Cuba: from pre-Columbian villages to the colonial world / Roberto Valcárcel Rojas -- Los Indios de Campeche: the Maya diaspora and the Mesoamerican presence in colonial Cuba / Jason M. Yaremko -- Recent advances in the archaeology of the Greater Antilles: some final remarks / Reniel Rodríguez Ramos