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The Earliest Inhabitants : the dynamics of the Jamaican Ta�ino / edited by Lesley-Gail Atkinson. - xvi, 215 pages : illustration, maps ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-213).

The development of Jamaican prehistory / William F. Keegan and Lesley-Gail Atkinson -- The Taino settlement of the Kingston area / Philip Allsworth-Jones ... [et al.] -- The Pre-Columbian site of Chancery Hall, St Andrew / Philip Allsworth-Jones ... [et al.] -- Excavations at Green Castle, St Mary / Philip Allsworth-Jones and Kit Wesler -- The impact of land-based development on Taino archaeology in Jamaica / Andrea Richards -- Notes on the natural history of Jamaica / Wendy A. Lee -- The exploitation and transformation of Jamaica's natural vegetation / Lesley-Gail Atkinson -- Early Arawak subsistence strategies: the Rodney's House site of Jamaica / Sylvia Scudder -- Petrography and source of some Arawak rock artefacts from Jamaica / M. John Roobol and James W. Lee -- Jamaican Taino pottery / Norma Rodney-Harrack -- Jamaican redware / James W. Lee -- Taino ceramics from post-contact Jamaica / Robyn P. Woodward -- The petroglyphs of Jamaica / James W. Lee -- Zemis, trees and symbolic landscapes: three Taino carvings from Jamaica / Nicholas Saunders and Dorrick Gray.

ISBN: 9766401497 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2007359013

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA477634 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013024173 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Taino Indians--History.--Jamaica
Taino Indians--Antiquities.--Jamaica
Excavations (Archaeology)--Jamaica.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Jamaica--Antiquities.

LC Class. No.: F1619.2.T3 / E37 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 972.92004/97922