TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilson,Samuel M.
ED  - Virgin Islands Humanities Council.
TI  - The indigenous people of the Caribbean
T2  - The Ripley P. Bullen series
SN  - 0813016924 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - F1619 .I53 1999
U1  - 972.901 
PY  - 1999///, c1997
CY  - Gainesville, FL
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - Indians of the West Indies
KW  - Local
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Caribbean Area
KW  - West Indies
N1  - "Organized by the Virgin Islands Humanities Council."; Originally published as hbk.: 1997; Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-248) and index; 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
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