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Focuses on the relationship between the Tainos of the past and the natural history of the islands. This book emphasizes Taino words and beliefs about their worldview and culture.

Through an analysis of seven archaeological sites on the Yucatan peninsula that are open to heritage touring, the author reveals the planned growth of the Maya Riviera since the early 1970s and examines the impact of international tourism on both ancient structures and the contemporary Maya people and culture.

Caribbean scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly developed and employed different methods and techniques for the study of archaeological materials. This volume describes various methods and techniques in the study of archaeological materials from the Caribbean. It illustrates each of the approaches with a case study.

Offers a compilation that focuses on the nature of Caribbean rock art or rock graphics and makes clear the region's substantial and distinctive rock art tradition. This title includes data on the history of rock graphic research, the nature of the assemblages, and the legal, conservation, and research status of the image sites.

Intends to debunk eleven popular and prevalent myths about Caribbean history. This book informs popular audiences, as well as scholars, about the state of archaeological/historical research in the Caribbean Basin and asserts the value of that research in fostering a better understanding of the region's past.

Intends to summarize the prehistoric evidence from the island of Jamaica. This book is designed to provide general commentary that can stand alone and be read as a continuous narrative. It includes a CD-ROM that furnishes a range of illustrations, data, calculations, measurements, and comparisons.

A comprehensive study of a unique Maya site offering the architectural features. This work reveals what daily Maya life was like.

Cemis are both portable artifacts and embodiments of persons or spirits, which the Tainos and other natives of the Greater Antilles (ca. AD 1000-1550) regarded as numinous beings with super-natural or magic powers. This title looks at the relationship between humans and other (non-human) beings that are imbued with cemi power.

Addressing the use of geoinformatics in Caribbean archaeology, this volume is based on case studies drawn from specific island territories, namely, Barbados, St John, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Nevis, St Eustatius, and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as inter-island interaction and landscape conceptualization in the Caribbean region.

The result of the author's fieldwork in Puerto Rico in 1902-04, this book is illustrated by 93 plates and 43 line drawings of specimens from public and private collections of the islands.

In this deeply researched and multifaceted study, Marco G. Meniketti demonstrates how the landscape of the small Caribbean island of Nevis preserves and reveals artifacts and evidence of the highly complex and interrelated seventeenth- to nineteenth-century "Atlantic Economy," comprising early capitalist sugar production, the African slave trade, and European settlement.

Award-winning archaeologist Richard A. Krause presents an ethnographic account of pottery production based on archaeological evidence. Krause's work suggests that by comparing the results of inquiries conducted at different sites and for different times, archaeologists may be able to create a general ethnographic theory of pottery production.