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New questions and old paradigms :reexamining Caribbean culture history
(Latin American Antiquity, 2013)
One of the central goals of archaeology is the definition of regional cultural succession. Since at least the 1960s, archaeology has purported to have moved beyond the strictures of Culture History, and yet the constructs ...
Early dispersals of maize and other food plants into the Southern Caribbean and Northeastern South America
(Elsevier Ltd., 2015-07-02)
Grindstones from Eva 2 and St. John, two of the earliest sites in northeastern South America and the
southern Caribbean respectively, were subjected to starch grain analysis. Results of this study revealed
that these ...
Long-distance exchange in the precolonial Circum-Caribbean : a multi-isotope study of animal tooth pendants from Puerto Rico
(Elsevier Inc., 2014-06-03)
This study explores the feasibility of using combined strontium (87Sr/86Sr) and oxygen (d18O) isotope
analyses of archaeological animal remains from Puerto Rico to investigate precolonial networks of
exchange in the ...
Petrography, mineralogy and geochemistry of jadeite-rich artefacts from the Playa Grande excavation site, northern Hispaniola : evaluation of local provenance from the Río San Juan Complex
(The Geological Society of London, 2018)
Many archaeological sites with jadeitite artefacts are known in the Caribbean region but defining the source of the raw material is a major problem because of great mineralogical heterogeneity both in potential sources and ...
La huella femenina en el coleccionismo arqueológico de Puerto Rico : el caso de Alice Loughran de Santiago
(Cuba Arqueológica, 2021-01)
Puerto Rico has an extensive and complex history of archaeological collecting. Although very important information has been generated on the various actors involved in this type of activity, there are figures who were ...