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This valuable book synthesizes current archaeological information about the plants and animals, wild and domestic, that the Native Americans of the Caribbean Basin used. Their diverse uses included food, medicine, fuel, pigments, trade, ritual, and the fabrication of built environment, art, and other aspects of material culture. . . . Recommended. CHOICE

"""Newsom and Wing know the Caribbean ethnobiological data extremely well, having conducted most of the relevant research themselves. . . . Insights include subsistence change from Archaic to later time periods, dynamics of early home gardening and agricultural systems, impact of introduced species, consequences of intensified food production, and degree of over-exploitation of marine resources."" --Gayle J. Fritz, Washington University ""This valuable book synthesizes current archaeological information about the plants and animals, wild and domestic, that the Native Americans of the Caribbean Basin used. Their diverse uses included food, medicine, fuel, pigments, trade, ritual, and the fabrication of built environment, art, and other aspects of material culture. . . . Recommended."" --CHOICE"

Newsom and Wing know the Caribbean ethnobiological data extremely well, having conducted most of the relevant research themselves.... Insights include subsistence change from Archaic to later time periods, dynamics of early home gardening and agricultural systems, impact of introduced species, consequences of intensified food production, and degree of overexploitation of marine resources.

This valuable book synthesizes current archaeological information about the plants and animals, wild and domestic, that the Native Americans of the Caribbean Basin used. Their diverse uses included food, medicine, fuel, pigments, trade, ritual, and the fabrication of built environment, art, and other aspects of material culture. . . . Recommended. -- CHOICE

Newsom and Wing know the Caribbean ethnobiological data extremely well, having conducted most of the relevant research themselves. . . . Insights include subsistence change from Archaic to later time periods, dynamics of early home gardening and agricultural systems, impact of introduced species, consequences of intensified food production, and degree of over-exploitation of marine resources. --Gayle J. Fritz, Washington University This valuable book synthesizes current archaeological information about the plants and animals, wild and domestic, that the Native Americans of the Caribbean Basin used. Their diverse uses included food, medicine, fuel, pigments, trade, ritual, and the fabrication of built environment, art, and other aspects of material culture. . . . Recommended. --CHOICE

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Lee A. Newsom is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. Elizabeth S. Wing is a Curator Emerita at the Florida Museum of Natural History and coauthor of Zooarchaeology.

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