The indigenous peoples of Trinidad and Tobago : from the first settlers until today

1. Verfasser: Boomert, Arie
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2016.
Umfang/Format: xv, 197 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm.
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Trinidad and Tobago
Online Zugang: Table of contents
Inhaltsangabe:
  • The first settlers (ca. 8000-300 BC)
  • New immigrants : the first ceramists (ca. 300 BC-AD 650/800)
  • Late-prehistoric cultural change (ca. AD 650/800-1498)
  • Amerindian culture and society in Trinidad and Tobago at the time of the encounter and thereafter
  • The Amerindian-European struggle for Trinidad and Tobago (1498-1592)
  • The Spanish-Amerindian frontier in Trinidad (1592-1686)
  • European settlement and Amerindian response in Tobago (1592-ca. 1810)
  • Mission villages in Spanish Trinidad (1686-1797)
  • British colonization and Amerindian persistence in Trinidad (1797-present)
  • Epilogue : the Amerindian heritage of Trinidad and Tobago
  • Appendix : institutions and museums with significant archaeological holdings from Trinidad and Tobago.