Island Shores, Distant Pasts

by Fitzpatrick, Scott M.

• ISBN13: 9780813035222
• ISBN10: 0813035228
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-21
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Scott M. Fitzpatrick is associate professor of anthropology at North Carolina State University and the editor of Voyages of Discovery: The Archaeology of Islands. Ann H. Ross is associate professor of anthropology at North Carolina State University. She is a contributor to Digging Deeper: Current Trends and Future Directions in Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology.

Table of Contents

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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