The earliest inhabitants : the dynamics of the Jamaican Taino

Weitere Verfasser: Atkinson, Lesley-Gail.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2006.
Umfang/Format: xvi, 215 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Jamaica
Online Zugang: Table of contents
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.