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Early Settlers of the Insular Caribbean: Dearchaizing the Archaic offers a comprehensive coverage of the most recent advances in interdisciplinary research on the early human settling of the Caribbean islands. It covers the time span of the so-called Archaic Age and focuses on the Middle to Late Holocene period which – depending on specific case studies discussed in this volume – could range between 6000 BC and AD 1000. A similar approach to the early settlers of the Caribbean islands has never been published in one volume, impeding the realization of a holistic view on indigenous peoples’ settling, subsistence, movements, and interactions in this vast and naturally diversified macroregion.   Delivered by a panel of international experts, this book provides recent and new data in the fields of archaeology, collection studies, palaeo­botany, geomorphology, paleoclimate and bioarchaeology that challenge currently existing perspectives on early human settlement patterns, subsistence strategies, migration routes and mobility and exchange. This publication compiles new approaches to ‘old’ data and museum collections, presents the results of starch grain analysis, paleocoring, seascape modelling, and network analysis. Moreover, it features newer published data from the islands such as Margarita and Aruba. All the above-mentioned data compiled in one volume fills the gap in scholarly literature, transforms some of the interpretations in vogue and enables the integration of the first settlers of the insular Caribbean into the larger Pan-American perspective.   This book not only provides scholars and students with compelling new and interdisciplinary perspectives on the Early Settlers of the Insular Caribbean. It is also of interest to unspecialized readers as it discusses subjects related to archaeology, anthropology, and – broadly speaking – to the intersections between humanities and social and environmental sciences, which are of great interest to the present-day general public.

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Author:   Corinne L Hofman ,  Andrzej T Antczak
Publisher:   Sidestone Press
Imprint:   Sidestone Press
ISBN:  

9789088907814

ISBN 10:   9088907811
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   09 May 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents List of Contributors List of Figures List of Tables Introduction Corinne L. Hofman and Andrzej T. Antczak Dearchaizing the Caribbean Archaic Andrzej T. Antczak and Corinne L. Hofman I. ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES AND SUBSISTENCE STRATEGIES Gone with the Waves: Sea level rise, ancient territories, and the socioenvironmental context of the mid-Holocene maritime mobility in the Pan-Caribbean region Isabel C. Rivera-Collazo Archaeological evidence and the potential effects of Paleo-Tsunami Events during the Archaic Age in the Southern Caribbean Jay B. Haviser Natural and anthropogenic landscape change and the submergence and emergence of the Archaic Age settlement on the eastern edge of the Anegada Passage John G. Crock Ecosystem engineering during the human occupations of the Lesser Antilles Peter E. Siegel, John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, Nicholas P. Dunning, Pat Farrell, Neil A. Duncan, and Jason H. Curtis On the way to the islands: The role of domestic plants in the initial peopling of the Antilles Jaime R. Pagan-Jimenez, Reniel Rodriguez Ramos, and Corinne L. Hofman Subsistence strategies and food consumption patterns of Archaic Age populations from Cuba: From traditional perspectives to current analytical results Yadira Chinique de Armas, Roberto Rodriguez Suarez, William M. Buhay, and Mirjana Roksandic II. LOCAL DEVELOPMENTS AND REGIONAL ENTANGLEMENTS The first settlers: Lithic through Archaic times in the coastal zone and on the offshore islands of northeast South America Arie Boomert Early indigenous occupations of Margarita Island and the Venezuelan Caribbean Andrzej T. Antczak, Luis A. Lemoine Buffet, Ma. Magdalena Antczak, and Valenti Rull The Archaic Age of Aruba: New evidence on the first migrations into the island Harold J. Kelly and Corinne L. Hofman Construction and deconstruction of the Archaic in Cuba and Hispaniola Jorge Ulloa Hung and Roberto Valcarcel Rojas Levisa 1. Studying the earliest indigenous peoples in Cuba in multicomponent archaeological sites Roberto Valcarcel Rojas, Jorge Ulloa Hung, and Osmani Feria Garcia Situating Jamaica William F. Keegan Guacaras in early Precolonial Puerto Rico: The case of Cueva Ventana Reniel Rodriguez Ramos, Jaime Pagan-Jimenez, Yvonne Narganes Storde, and Michael J. Lace The Krum Bay sites revisited. The excavations in the Krum Bay area on St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands Casper Toftgaard III. MOBILITY AND EXCHANGE An Archaic site at Upper Blakes on Montserrat: Discovery, context, and wider significance John F. Cherry and Krysta Ryzewski Archaic Age voyaging, networks, and resource mobility around the Caribbean Sea Corinne L. Hofman, Lewis Borck, Emma Slayton, and Menno L. P. Hoogland References Appendix

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Corinne L. Hofman is Professor of Caribbean Archaeology at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, the Netherlands. She has conducted fieldwork – together with Dr. Menno Hoogland – in many of the Caribbean islands over the past 30 years. Her research and publications are highly multi-disciplinary and major themes of interest center around mobility and exchange, colonial encounters, inter-cultural dynamics, settlement archaeology, artefact analyses, and provenance studies. Her projects are designed to contribute to the historical awareness, preservation and valorization of indigenous heritage. Hofman has obtained numerous research grants from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA), and the European Research Council (ERC), as well as prestigious prizes. She is the PI of the NWO-Island Networks project and the ERC-Synergy NEXUS1492 project. She is the author of many articles, book chapters and edited volumes on Caribbean archaeology. Her two most recent books are Managing our Past into the Future (with Jay B. Haviser), Sidestone Press 2015 and The Caribbean Before Columbus (with William F. Keegan), Oxford University Press 2017. Dr. Andrzej T. Antczak is Associate Professor of Caribbean Archaeology at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, the Netherlands. Since 1982, he has been co-directing—together with Dr. Marlena Antczak—pioneering archaeological investigations on more than 60 off-shore islands of the Venezuelan Caribbean and, since 2006, on the small islands off the eastern coast of Martinique. His scholarly interests include the pre-colonial and early colonial archaeology of the Southeastern Caribbean, theory and method in the study of the social past, materiality, non-western ontologies, community archaeology, collection studies, archaeometry, shell middens, and historical ecology. His books include: Los Idolos de las Islas Prometidas: Arqueología Prehispánica del Archipiélago de Los Roques (with Ma.M. Antczak), Editorial Equinoccio 2006, Los Mensajes Confiados a la Roca (also with Ma.M. Antczak), Editorial Equinoccio 2007 and Early Human Impact on Megamolluscs (co-edited with R. Cipriani), Archaeopress 2008.

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