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• catalog abstract "Annotation A storehouse of information on the human ecology of the Caribbean, and an illumination of th eprocesses of colonization of island systems anywhere in the world. Annotation Provides a storehouse of information on the human ecology of the Caribbean and illuminates the processes of colonization of island systems anywhere in the world. During the vast stretches of early geologic time, the islands of the Caribbean archipelago separated from continental land masses, rose and sank many times, merged with and broke from other land masses, and then by the mid-Cenozoic period settled into the current pattern known today. By the time Native Americans arrived, the islands had developed complex, stable ecosystems. The actions these first colonists took on the landscape--timber clearing, cultivation, animal hunting and domestication, fishing and exploitation of reef species--affected fragile land and sea biotic communities in both beneficial and harmful ways. On Land and Sea examines the condition of biosystems on Caribbean islands at the time of colonization, human interactions with those systems through time, and the current state of biological resources in the West Indies. Drawing on a massive data set collected from long-term archaeological research, the study reconstructs past lifeways on these small tropical islands. The work presents a wide range of information, including types of fuel and construction timber used by inhabitants, cooking techniques for various shellfish, availability and use of medicinal and ritual plants, the effects on native plants and animals of cultivation and domestication, and diet and nutrition of native populations. The islands of the Caribbean basin continue to be actively excavated and studied in the quest to understand the earliest human inhabitants of the New World. This comprehensive work will ground current and future studies andwill be valuable to archaeologists, anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, Caribbeanists, Latin American historians, and anyone studying similar island environments.".
• catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
• catalog contributor b13268120.
• catalog contributor b13268121.
• catalog coverage "West Indies Antiquities.".
• catalog created "c2004.".
• catalog date "2004".
• catalog date "c2004.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
• catalog description "An Introduction to Native American Uses of Biological Resources in the West Indies -- Environmental Setting -- Human Colonization of the West Indies -- Sources of Plant and Animal Samples and Methods Used to Study Them -- Southern Caribbean Region -- Lesser Antilles -- Greater Antilles and the Virgin Islands -- Bahamas Archipelago -- Toward a Synthetic Caribbean Paleoethnobiology.".
• catalog description "Annotation A storehouse of information on the human ecology of the Caribbean, and an illumination of th eprocesses of colonization of island systems anywhere in the world.".
• catalog description "Annotation Provides a storehouse of information on the human ecology of the Caribbean and illuminates the processes of colonization of island systems anywhere in the world. During the vast stretches of early geologic time, the islands of the Caribbean archipelago separated from continental land masses, rose and sank many times, merged with and broke from other land masses, and then by the mid-Cenozoic period settled into the current pattern known today. By the time Native Americans arrived, the islands had developed complex, stable ecosystems. The actions these first colonists took on the landscape--timber clearing, cultivation, animal hunting and domestication, fishing and exploitation of reef species--affected fragile land and sea biotic communities in both beneficial and harmful ways. On Land and Sea examines the condition of biosystems on Caribbean islands at the time of colonization, human interactions with those systems through time, and the current state of biological resources in the West Indies. Drawing on a massive data set collected from long-term archaeological research, the study reconstructs past lifeways on these small tropical islands. The work presents a wide range of information, including types of fuel and construction timber used by inhabitants, cooking techniques for various shellfish, availability and use of medicinal and ritual plants, the effects on native plants and animals of cultivation and domestication, and diet and nutrition of native populations. The islands of the Caribbean basin continue to be actively excavated and studied in the quest to understand the earliest human inhabitants of the New World. This comprehensive work will ground current and future studies andwill be valuable to archaeologists, anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, Caribbeanists, Latin American historians, and anyone studying similar island environments.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-301) and index.".
• catalog extent "xviii, 323 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "On land and sea.".
• catalog identifier "0817313141 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "081731315X (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "On land and sea.".
• catalog issued "2004".
• catalog issued "c2004.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press,".
• catalog relation "On land and sea.".
• catalog spatial "West Indies Antiquities.".
• catalog spatial "West Indies.".
• catalog subject "578.6/3/089970729 22".
• catalog subject "Animal remains (Archaeology) West Indies.".
• catalog subject "F1619.3.E85 N48 2004".
• catalog subject "Human-animal relationships West Indies.".
• catalog subject "Human-plant relationships West Indies.".
• catalog subject "Indians of the West Indies Ethnobotany.".
• catalog subject "Indians of the West Indies Ethnozoology.".
• catalog subject "Indigenous peoples Ecology West Indies.".
• catalog subject "Plant remains (Archaeology) West Indies.".
• catalog tableOfContents "An Introduction to Native American Uses of Biological Resources in the West Indies -- Environmental Setting -- Human Colonization of the West Indies -- Sources of Plant and Animal Samples and Methods Used to Study Them -- Southern Caribbean Region -- Lesser Antilles -- Greater Antilles and the Virgin Islands -- Bahamas Archipelago -- Toward a Synthetic Caribbean Paleoethnobiology.".
• catalog title "On land and sea : native American uses of biological resources in the West Indies / Lee A. Newsom and Elizabeth S. Wing.".
• catalog type "text".