Island Shores, Distant Pasts

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ISBN: 9780813035222 | 0813035228
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/21/2010

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For more than a century, archaeologists and anthropologists have searched for evidence of when and how peoples first settled the Caribbean islands. Data are severely limited in many respects, in part because of the tropical climate-which is generally not conducive to the long-term preservation of organic remains-and in part because of such factors as development, erosion, and looting.

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List of Figures	p. ix
List of Tables	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xv
Introduction: Crossing the Caribbean Divide: Integrating Anthropological Analyses in the Study of Pre-Columbian Cultures	p. 1
Island Shores and "Long Pauses"	p. 11
Rethinking Time in Caribbean Archaeology: The Puerto Rico Case Study	p. 21
The History of Amerindian Mitochondrial DNA Lineages in Puerto Rico	p. 54
Pre-Columbian Archaeology of Cuba: A Study of Site Distribution Patterns and Radiocarbon Chronologies	p. 81
A Morphometric Approach to Taíno Biological Distance in the Caribbean	p. 108
Crossing the Guadeloupe Passage in the Archaic Age	p. 127
Interisland Dynamics: Evidence for Human Mobility at the Site of Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe	p. 148
The Southward Route Hypothesis: Examining Carriacou's Chronological Position in Antillean Prehistory	p. 163
Coastal Waves and Island Hopping: A Genetic View of Caribbean Prehistory and New World Colonization	p. 177
Epilogue. Linking Caribbean Shores, Visualizing the Past	p. 199
References	p. 203
List of Contributors	p. 237
Index	p. 243
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