Communities in Contact
Essays in archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnography of the Amerindian circum-Caribbean
Edited by Corinne L. Hofman & Anne van Duijvenbode | 2011
Communities in Contact represents the outcome of the fourth international Leiden in the Caribbean congress entitled From Prehistory to Ethnography in the circum-Caribbean. The contributions included in this volume cover a wide range of topics…
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Blood is thicker than water
Amerindian intra- and inter-insular relationships and social organization in the pre-Colonial Windward Islands
Alistair J. Bright | 2011
This study represents a contribution to the pre-Colonial archaeology of the Windward Islands in the Caribbean. The research aimed to determine how the Ceramic Age (ca. 400 BC – AD 1492) Amerindian inhabitants of the…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
Renewing the house
Trajectories of social life in the yucayeque (community) of El Cabo, Higüey, Dominican Republic, AD 800 to 1504
Alice V.M. Samson | 2010
This study is a contribution to the household archaeology of the Caribbean. The aim of the research was to come to a material definition of the precolonial house, rather than rely on the few, short,…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
Teeth Tell Tales
Dental wear as evidence for cultural practices at Anse a la Gourde and Tutu
Hayley L. Mickleburgh | 2008
Similar to the osteological study of prehistoric human remains, the study of human dental wear has been proven to afford a wealth of information on human cultural practices. This study is aimed at recording and…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
Costly Giving, Giving Guaízas
Towards an organic model of the exchange of social valuables in the Late Ceramic Age Caribbean
Angus A.A. Mol | 2007
An Archaeology of Exchange is primarily an archaeology of human sociality and anti-sociality. Nevertheless, archaeological studies of exchange are numerous and varied, and archaeologists do not always approach exchange as a social mechanism, concentrating rather…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
The End of our Third Decade (volume II)
Papers written on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the institute of Prehistory, Volume II
Edited by Corrie Bakels | 1993
This volume is the second of a set of two dealing with papers written on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Institute of Prehistory, Leiden University. It contains 18 articles on different subjects…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
The End of our Third Decade (volume I)
Papers written on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Institute of Prehistory, Volume I
Edited by Corrie Bakels | 1992
This volume is the first of a set of two with papers written on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Institute of Prehistory, Leiden University. It contains the 14 contributions dealing with the…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
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Communities in Contact
Essays in archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnography of the Amerindian circum-Caribbean
Edited by Corinne L. Hofman & Anne van Duijvenbode | 2011
Communities in Contact represents the outcome of the fourth international Leiden in the Caribbean congress entitled From Prehistory to Ethnography in the circum-Caribbean. The contributions included in this volume cover a wide range of topics…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
Blood is thicker than water
Amerindian intra- and inter-insular relationships and social organization in the pre-Colonial Windward Islands
Alistair J. Bright | 2011
This study represents a contribution to the pre-Colonial archaeology of the Windward Islands in the Caribbean. The research aimed to determine how the Ceramic Age (ca. 400 BC – AD 1492) Amerindian inhabitants of the…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
Renewing the house
Trajectories of social life in the yucayeque (community) of El Cabo, Higüey, Dominican Republic, AD 800 to 1504
Alice V.M. Samson | 2010
This study is a contribution to the household archaeology of the Caribbean. The aim of the research was to come to a material definition of the precolonial house, rather than rely on the few, short,…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
Teeth Tell Tales
Dental wear as evidence for cultural practices at Anse a la Gourde and Tutu
Hayley L. Mickleburgh | 2008
Similar to the osteological study of prehistoric human remains, the study of human dental wear has been proven to afford a wealth of information on human cultural practices. This study is aimed at recording and…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
Costly Giving, Giving Guaízas
Towards an organic model of the exchange of social valuables in the Late Ceramic Age Caribbean
Angus A.A. Mol | 2007
An Archaeology of Exchange is primarily an archaeology of human sociality and anti-sociality. Nevertheless, archaeological studies of exchange are numerous and varied, and archaeologists do not always approach exchange as a social mechanism, concentrating rather…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
The End of our Third Decade (volume II)
Papers written on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the institute of Prehistory, Volume II
Edited by Corrie Bakels | 1993
This volume is the second of a set of two dealing with papers written on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Institute of Prehistory, Leiden University. It contains 18 articles on different subjects…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
The End of our Third Decade (volume I)
Papers written on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Institute of Prehistory, Volume I
Edited by Corrie Bakels | 1992
This volume is the first of a set of two with papers written on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Institute of Prehistory, Leiden University. It contains the 14 contributions dealing with the…
![](https://www.sidestone.com/images/777.jpg)
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