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.