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
Table of Contents:
  • 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.