Crossing the borders new methods and techniques in the study of archaeological materials from the Caribbean /

Corporate Author: Society for American Archaeology. Meeting
Other Authors: Hoogland, Menno Lambertus Pieter,, Gijn, Annelou L. van,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008.
Series:Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10309825
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245 0 0 |a Crossing the borders  |b new methods and techniques in the study of archaeological materials from the Caribbean /  |c edited by Corinne L. Hofman, Menno L.P. Hoogland, and Annelou L. van Gijn. 
260 |a Tuscaloosa :  |b University of Alabama Press,  |c c2008. 
300 |a xii, 293 p. :  |b ill., maps. 
490 1 |a Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory 
500 |a Outcome of a symposium held at the 71st Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Puerto Rico in April 2006. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-284) and index. 
505 0 |a Crossing disciplinary boundaries and national borders : new methods and techniques in the study of archaeological materials from the Caribbean / Corinne L. Hofman, Menno L.P. Hoogland, and Annelou L. van Gijn -- In tuneful threefold : combining conventional archaeological methods, archaeometric techniques, and ethnoarchaeological research in the study of precolonial pottery of the Caribbean / Corinne L. Hofman ... [et al.] -- American gold and European brass : metal objects and indigenous values in the cemetery of El Chorro de Maβita, Cuba / Jago Cooper, Marcos Martinβon-Torres, and Roberto Valcβarcel Rojas -- Chert sourcing in the northern Lesser Antilles : the use of geochemical techniques in discriminating chert materials / Sebastiaan Knippenberg and Johannes J.P. Zijlstra -- A new material to view the past : dental alginate molds of friable artifacts / Charlene Dixon Hutcheson -- Saladoid lapidary technology : new methods for investigating stone bead drilling techniques / Christy de Mille, Tamara Varney, and Michael Turney -- Lithic technology : a way to more complex diversity in Caribbean archaeology / Benoγit Bβerard -- Tool use and technological choices : an integral approach toward functional analysis of Caribbean tool assemblages / Annelou L. van Gijn, Yvonne Lammers-Keijsers, and Iris Briels -- Understanding the function of coral tools from Anse αa la Gourde : an experimental approach / Harold J. Kelly and Annelou L. van Gijn -- The significance of wear and residue studies : an example from Plum Piece, Saba / Channah J. Nieuwenhuis -- Starch residues on lithic artifacts from two contrasting contexts in northwestern Puerto Rico : Los Muertos Cave and Vega de Nelo Vargas farmstead / Jaime R. Pagβan Jimβenez and Josβe R. Oliver -- The burβen in precolonial Cuban archaeology : new information regarding the use of plants and ceramic griddles during the late Ceramic Age of eastern Cuba gathered through starch analysis / Roberto Rodrβiguez Suβarez and Jaime R. Pagβan Jimβenez -- Caribbean paleoethnobotany : present status and new horizons (understanding the evolution of an indigenous ethnobotany) / Lee A. Newsom -- New evidence of two different migratory waves in the circum-Caribbean area during the pre-Columbian period from the analysis of dental morphological traits / Alfredo Coppa ... [et al.] -- Tracing human mobility with 87Sr/86Sr at Anse αa la Gourde, Guadeloupe / Mathijs A. Booden ... [et al.] -- Epilogue: The correct answer requires the right question (and the technology to back it up) / William F. Keegan. 
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