On land and sea : Native American uses of biological resources in the West Indies

On land and sea : Native American uses of biological resources in the West Indies / Lee A. Newsom and Elizabeth S. Wing.

Provides a storehouse of information on the human ecology of the Caribbean and illuminates the processes of colonization of island systems anywhere in the world. During the vast stretches of early geologic time, the islands of the Caribbean archipelago separated from continental land masses, rose an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Newsom, Lee A.
Other Authors: Wing, Elizabeth S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Indians of the West Indies > Ethnobotany.
Indians of the West Indies > Ethnozoology.
Ethnoecology > West Indies.
Human-plant relationships > West Indies.
Human-animal relationships > West Indies.
Plant remains (Archaeology) > West Indies.
Animal remains (Archaeology) > West Indies.
Indigenous peoples > Ecology > West Indies.
Indians > Ethnobotany > West Indies.
Indians > Ethnozoology > West Indies.
SCIENCE > Microscopes & Microscopy.
NATURE > Animals > Wildlife.
Indians > Ethnobotany
Animal remains (Archaeology)
Antiquities
Human-animal relationships
Human-plant relationships
Indians of the West Indies > Ethnozoology
Ethnoecology
Plant remains (Archaeology)
West Indies > Antiquities.
West Indies
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. An Introduction to Native American Uses of Biological Resources in the West Indies; 2. Environmental Setting; 3. Human Colonization of the West Indies; 4. Sources of Plant and Animal Samples and Methods Used to Study Them; 5. Southern Caribbean Region; 6. Lesser Antilles; 7. Greater Antilles and the Virgin Islands; 8. Bahamas Archipelago; 9. Toward a Synthetic Caribbean Paleoethnobiology; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; References Cited; Index.

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