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The Taíno Settlement at Guayguata

Author : Philip Allsworth-Jones
Publisher : BAR International Series
ISBN 13 : 9781407310053
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Taíno Settlement at Guayguata written by Philip Allsworth-Jones and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1998 the authors of this report initiated a Jamaican Taíno archaeological project as a joint program of the Department of History, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, and Murray State University, Kentucky, USA. The objectives were to conduct a systematic archaeological investigation of a Taíno community (c. 1000-1700 AD), towards understanding its chronology, subsistence economy, trade connections, and social organization. The Taíno occupation sites of St. Mary Parish, on the north coast of Jamaica, were selected so as to compare findings from a number of different areas within a Taíno community which could be recovered through controlled excavations. The first season of excavations was at the Green Castle site, near Annotto Bay, Jamaica, in1999; these excavations were completed in three years, and two neighbouring sites were then investigated, Newry and Coleraine, in 2002 and 2003, respectively. A brief excavation at the Wentworth site, near Port Maria, west of Annotto Bay was also undertaken. Contributions from Lisabeth Carlson, Simon F. Mitchell, Sherene A. James, Ryan Ramsook, Marcella Phillips, Nicole L. Patrick, Anthony R. D. Porter and Ana Luísa Santos.

A Concise History of Jamaica

Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108573924
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Jamaica written by Kenneth Morgan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a social, economic, political, and cultural assessment of Jamaica over the past millennium. Exploring themes such as race, slavery, empire, poverty, and colonialism in an accessible way, this authoritative work will appeal to all readers interested in the Atlantic world.

The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology

Author : William F. Keegan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195392302
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology written by William F. Keegan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together examples of the best research to address the complexity of the Caribbean past.

The Archaeology of the Dead

Author : Henri Duday
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1782973400
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of the Dead written by Henri Duday and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Duday is Director of Research for CNRS at the University of Bordeaux. The Archaeology of the Dead is based on an intensive specialist course in burial archaeology given by Duday in Rome in November 2004. The primary aim of the project was to contribute to the development of common procedures for excavation, data collection and study of Roman cemeteries of the imperial period. Translated into English by Anna Maria Cipriani and John Pearce, this book looks at the way in which the analysis of skeletons can allow us to re-discover the lives of people who came before us and inform us of their view of death. Duday throughly examines the means at our disposal to allow the dead to speak, as well as identifying the pitfalls that may deceive us.

Pre-Columbian Jamaica

Author : Philip Allsworth-Jones
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817354662
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Pre-Columbian Jamaica written by Philip Allsworth-Jones and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2008-06-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pre-Columbian Jamaica represents the first substantial attempt to summarize the prehistoric evidence from the island in a single published account since J. E. Duerden's invaluable 1897 article on the subject, which is also reprinted within this volume.

The Earliest Inhabitants

Author : Lesley-Gail Atkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789766401498
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Earliest Inhabitants written by Lesley-Gail Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the variety of research conducted on the island's prehistoric site and artifacts. The text is a compilation of thirteen articles, five of which had been previously published but not widely available. The remaining eight new articles are based on archaeological research within the last five years. The book will appeal to a wide audience of archaeologists, historians, students of archaeology and anyone interested in Jamaica's history

An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians

Author : Fray Ramon Pané
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822382547
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians written by Fray Ramon Pané and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying Columbus on his second voyage to the New World in 1494 was a young Spanish friar named Ramón Pané. The friar’s assignment was to live among the “Indians” whom Columbus had “discovered” on the island of Hispaniola (today the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic), to learn their language, and to write a record of their lives and beliefs. While the culture of these indigenous people—who came to be known as the Taíno—is now extinct, the written record completed by Pané around 1498 has survived. This volume makes Pané’s landmark Account—the first book written in a European language on American soil—available in an annotated English edition. Edited by the noted Hispanist José Juan Arrom, Pané’s report is the only surviving direct source of information about the myths, ceremonies, and lives of the New World inhabitants whom Columbus first encountered. The friar’s text contains many linguistic and cultural observations, including descriptions of the Taíno people’s healing rituals and their beliefs about their souls after death. Pané provides the first known description of the use of the hallucinogen cohoba, and he recounts the use of idols in ritual ceremonies. The names, functions, and attributes of native gods; the mythological origin of the aboriginal people’s attitudes toward sex and gender; and their rich stories of creation are described as well.

Beyond the Blockade

Author : Susan Kepecs
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817356339
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Blockade written by Susan Kepecs and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2010-12-12 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a series of essays based on dialogues that have recently opened between Cuban archaeologists & their international colleagues.

Puerto Rican Rock Art

Author : C. N. Dubelaar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Puerto Rican Rock Art written by C. N. Dubelaar and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Caciques and Cemi Idols

Author : José R. Oliver
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817355154
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Caciques and Cemi Idols written by José R. Oliver and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2009-05-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes a close look at the relationship between humans and other (non-human) beings that are imbued with cemí power, specifically within the Taíno inter-island cultural sphere encompassing Puerto Rico and Hispaniola Cemís are both portable artifacts and embodiments of persons or spirit, which the Taínos and other natives of the Greater Antilles (ca. AD 1000-1550) regarded as numinous beings with supernatural or magic powers. This volume takes a close look at the relationship between humans and other (non-human) beings that are imbued with cemí power, specifically within the Taíno inter-island cultural sphere encompassing Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. The relationships address the important questions of identity and personhood of the cemí icons and their human “owners” and the implications of cemí gift-giving and gift-taking that sustains a complex web of relationships between caciques (chiefs) of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. Oliver provides a careful analysis of the four major forms of cemís—three-pointed stones, large stone heads, stone collars, and elbow stones—as well as face masks, which provide an interesting contrast to the stone heads. He finds evidence for his interpretation of human and cemí interactions from a critical review of 16th-century Spanish ethnohistoric documents, especially the Relación Acerca de las Antigüedades de los Indios written by Friar Ramón Pané in 1497–1498 under orders from Christopher Columbus. Buttressed by examples of native resistance and syncretism, the volume discusses the iconoclastic conflicts and the relationship between the icons and the human beings. Focusing on this and on the various contexts in which the relationships were enacted, Oliver reveals how the cemís were central to the exercise of native political power. Such cemís were considered a direct threat to the hegemony of the Spanish conquerors, as these potent objects were seen as allies in the native resistance to the onslaught of Christendom with its icons of saints and virgins.

The Archaeology of the Caribbean

Author : Samuel M. Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521626224
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of the Caribbean written by Samuel M. Wilson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Archaeology of the Caribbean is a comprehensive synthesis of Caribbean prehistory from the earliest settlement by humans more than 4000 years BC, to the time of European conquest of the islands, from the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. Samuel Wilson reviews the evidence for migration and cultural change throughout the archipelago, dealing in particular with periods of cultural interaction when groups with different cultures and histories were in contact.

History of the Indies

Author : Bartolomé de las Casas
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Indies written by Bartolomé de las Casas and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1971 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Origins of the Tainan Culture, West Indies

Author : Sven Lovén
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins of the Tainan Culture, West Indies written by Sven Lovén and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Costly Giving, Giving Guaízas

Author : Angus A. A. Mol
Publisher : Sidestone Press
ISBN 13 : 9088900027
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Costly Giving, Giving Guaízas written by Angus A. A. Mol and published by Sidestone Press. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Archaeology of Exchange is primarily an archaeology of human sociality and anti-sociality. Nevertheless, archaeological studies of exchange are numerous and varied, and archaeologists do not always approach exchange as a social mechanism, concentrating rather on the cultural, economic or political implications of exchange. Even so, at times it is worth retracing the implicit theoretical steps that archaeologists have taken and look at human sociality through the eyes of exchange as something new. This is undertaken here by concentrating on the exchange of social valuables in the later part of the Late Ceramic Age of the Greater and Lesser Antilles (AD 1000/1100-1492). Questions concerning this exchange are framed in a novel mix of theories such as Costly Signalling Theory coupled with the paradox of keeping-while-giving and the notion of gene/culture co-evolution joined with Complex Adaptive System theory. All these theories can be related back to the concept of exchange as put forward by the French sociologist Marcel Mauss in his famous "Essai sur le don" of 1950. This theoretical framework is put to the test by an extensive case-study of a specific category of Late Ceramic Age social valuables, shell faces, which have an area of distribution that ranges from central Cuba to the Ile de Ronde in the Grenadines. The study of these enigmatic artefacts provides new insights into the nature and use of social valuables by communities and individuals in the Late Ceramic Age.

Taíno

Author : Museo del Barrio (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taíno written by Museo del Barrio (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized by El Museo del Barrio in New York to coincide with a major exhibition, this is the first comprehensive English-language publication on the fascinating legacy of Taiacute;no art and culture. Showcasing over one hundred rare and beautiful ceremonial and domestic artworks and individual masterpieces of this ancient culture -- produced in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, and the Bahamas between A.D. 1200 and 1500 --Taiacute;noincludes examples of finely detailed and polished sculptures carved in wood, precious ornaments of shell and bone, and ceramics decorated with animals, birds, and intricate geometric motifs. The contributors include ten of the foremost scholars of pre-Columbian culture and art, and an appendix features writings from Spanish explorers who had contact with the Taiacute;no. Of Arawak descent, the Taiacute;no -- whose ancestors migrated to the Caribbean from the Amazon Basin in South America during the sixth century -- were the first people encountered by Christopher Columbus. Although they ceased to exist as an autonomous society within sixty years of the arrival of Spanish colonizers, the Taiacute;no -- skilled agriculturists and navigators and accomplished weavers, potters, and carvers -- developed a complex political, religious, and social system, and made a substantial contribution to the biological, cultural, and linguistic makeup of large areas of the Caribbean. To this date, Caribbean communities in the Antilles and in New York and other large American cities exhibit the survival of Taiacute;no practices in their worldviews, religious beliefs, language, music, and food.

On the Trail of the Arawaks

Author : Fred Olsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806115030
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book On the Trail of the Arawaks written by Fred Olsen and published by . This book was released on 1974-12-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spanish Jamaica

Author : Francisco Morales Padrón
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789766371463
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Spanish Jamaica written by Francisco Morales Padrón and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1494, Christopher Columbus's exploratory travels on behalf of the King and Queen of Spain brought him to the island of Jamaica. His arrival represented the beginning of the Spanish period in Jamaica's history which ended with the English capture of the island in 1655. Despite spanning more than a full century and a half, the Spanish history of Jamaica has remained in virtual obscurity. This English translation of Francisco Morales Padr�n's Spanish Jamaica, originally published in Seville, Spain in 1952 as Jamaica Espa�ola, not only brings to light Spain's contribution to Jamaica's history but also reveals how this history subsequently affected Spain's colonial fortunes in the Western Hemisphere. Padr�n's Spanish Jamaica provides details of the social, economic and political conditions existing in the island during the period of Spanish rule. Of particular importance is the author's analysis of Jamaica's strategic importance to Spain as a gateway to mainland America, and how, by not exploiting this strategic advantage, the Spanish colonial enterprise never achieved its full potential. Spanish Jamaica provides a rare insight into the Spanish occupation of Jamaica through ""Spanish eyes"" and represents an invaluable source of information on an important but hitherto obscure period in the island's colourful history.