The archaeology of Caribbean and Circum-Caribbean farmers (6000 BC - AD 1500) / edited by Basil A. Reid. PRINT

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Caribbean farmers from a regional perspective / Basil A. Reid, Peter E. Siegel, Nicholas P. Dunning, Corinne L. Hofman, Stéphen Rostain, Victor D. Thompson, and Scott M. Fitzpatrick -- 1. Comparative perspectives on pre-Columbian farming in the Caribbean as seen through the lens of historical ecology / Scott M. Fitzpatrick -- 2. Humanizing the landscapes of the Lesser Antilles during the Archaic Age / Peter E. Siegel, John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, Nicholas P. Dunning, Pat Farrell, Neil A. Duncan, Jason H. Curtis, and Sushant K. Singh -- 3. The neolithization process in the Northeastern Caribbean: Mobility and social interaction / Corinne l. Hofman, Reniel Rodríguez Ramos and Jaime R. Pagán Jiménez -- 4. Straddling the subsistence divide: the case of Canímar Abajo and contemporaneous sites in Northwestern Cuba / David Gray Smith, Yadira Chinique de Armas, Roberto, Rodríguez Suárez, William M. Buhay, Ivan Roksandic, Matthew C. Peros and Mirjana Roksandic -- 5. Early agriculturalists of the Southern Caribbean / Andrzej T. Antczak, Jay B. Haviser, Menno L.P. Hoogland, Arie Bommert, Raymundo A.C.F. Dijkhoff, Harold Kelly, Ma. Magdalena Antczak, and Corinne l. Hofman -- 6. Animal management and domestication in the realm of ceramic age farming / Michelle J. Lefebvre and Susan D. Defrance -- 7. Rock art and horticulture in the Caribbean: Icons and symbols of humidity / Peter G. Roe, Michele H. Hayward, and Michael A. Cinquino -- 8. A comparative study of pre-colonial farming in the Caribbean vis-à-vis the Pacific / Basil A. Reid, Frank R. Thomas, and Scott M. Fitzpatrick -- 9. Some methods for reconstructing the woody resources of Neolithic farmers in the Caribbean / Caroline R. Cartwright -- 10. Domesticating the island: anthropogenic soils and landform modification as components of subsistence-resource acquisition strategies in Puerto Rico / Isabel C. Rivera-Collazo and Lara Sanchez-Morales -- 11. Isotopic challenges and categorical stumbling blocks in Caribbean archaeology: a cautionary tale from Puerto Rico / William J. Pestle and Reniel Rodríguez Ramos -- 12. Assessing dietary and subsistence transitions on prehistoric Aruba: preliminary bioarchaeological evidence / Hayley l. Mickleburgh and Jason E. Laffoon -- 13. When foragers are managers: social complexity and persistent foraging in the Florida Keys / Traci Ardren, Victor D. Thompson, Scott M. Fitzpatrick, Joseph Stevenson, and Roger L. Sierra -- 14. Maize, manioc, mamey and more: pre-Columbian lowland Maya agriculture / Nicholas P. Dunning, Timothy Beach, Elizabeth Graham, David Lentz, and Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach -- 15. Getting to the grain: the domestication of Zea Mays in Mesoamerica and beyond / Robert P. Kruger -- 16. Pre-Columbian farmers in the Guianas / Stéphen Rostain -- 17. From cooking pits to cooking pots: Changing modes of food processing during the late Archaic Age in French Guiana / Martijn M. van den Bel, Sebastiaan Knippenberg, and Jaime R. Pagán Jiménez -- Postscript / Peter Bellwood.

"Explores a variety of issues, including the introduction and dispersal of early cultivars, plant manipulation, animal domestication, dietary profiles, and landscape modifications. Tried-and-true and novel analytical techniques are used to tease out aspects of the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean database that inform the complex and often-subtle processes of domestication under varying socio-environmental conditions. Contributors discuss their findings within multiple constructs such as neolithisation, social interaction, trade, mobility, social complexity, migration, colonisation, and historical ecology. Multiple data sources are used which include but are not restricted to rock art, cooking pits and pots, stable isotopes, dental calculus and pathologies, starch grains, and proxies for past environmental conditions."--Provided by publisher