The Wilson, Samuel M. Virgin Islands Humanities Council text bibliography flu Gainesville, FL University Press of Florida 1999, c1997 1999 1st pbk. print. monographic eng

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xiv, 253 p. ill., maps 24 cm. 1. Introduction to the study of the indigenous people of the Caribbean / S.M. Wilson -- Background to the archaeology and ethnohistory of the Caribbean: The study of aboriginal peoples : multiple ways of knowing / Ricardo Alegría; The Lesser Antilles before Columbus / Louis Allaire -- The encounter: The biological impacts of 1492 / Richard L. Cunningham; The Salt River Site, St. Croix, at the time of the encounter / Birgit Faber Morse; European views of the aboriginal population / Alissandra Cummins -- The first migration of village farmers, 500 B.C. to A.D. 800: Settlement strategies in the early Ceramic Age / Jay B. Haviser; The ceramics, art, and material culture of the early Ceramic Period in the Caribbean Islands / Elizabeth Righter; Religious beliefs of the Saladoid people / Miguel Rodríguez; Maritime trade in the prehistoric eastern Caribbean / David R. Watters; Notes on ancient Caribbean art and mythology / Henry Petitjean Roget -- The Taino of the Greater Antilles on the eve of conquest: "No man [or woman] is an island" : elements of Taino social organization / William F. Keegan; Taino, Island Carib, and prehistoric Amerindian economies in the West Indies : tropical forest adaptations to island environments / James B. Petersen; The material culture of the Taino Indians / Ignacio Olazagasti; The Taino cosmos / José R. Oliver; Some observations on the Taino language / Arnold R. Highfield; The Taino vision : a study in the exchange of misunderstanding / H.P. Roget -- The island Caribs of the Lesser Antilles: The Caribs of the Lesser Antilles / L. Allaire; Language and gender among the Kalingo of fifteenth-century St. Croix / Vincent O. Cooper edited by Samuel M. Wilson. "Organized by the Virgin Islands Humanities Council." Originally published as hbk.: 1997. Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-248) and index. nw----- cc----- Indians of the West Indies Indians of the West Indies Antiquities Caribbean Area Antiquities West Indies Antiquities F1619 .I53 1999 972.901 I3994 0813016924 (pbk. : alk. paper) BRL 991215 20160527190649.0 254595