Caribbean (Geographic Keyword)

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Cuban natives cranial deformation. The implications to the skull vascular system. (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gizeh Rangel De Lázaro. Armando Rangel Rivero.

The pre-Columbian deformed skulls, display an oblique tabular fronto occipital artificial cranial warp, which is an Arawak – Taino cultural characteristic element. Such cranial deformations were induced immediately after birth, in both women and men. According to the descriptions supplied by Columbus and other chroniclers, deformations were practiced by the Taíno pottery agriculture groups living in Cuba. Although not all Taíno’s skulls were deformed, this feature is typically used as a cultural...

Cuban-Canadian Collaboration at the Sites in the Canímar River Basin and in the Cauto Region (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ivan Roksandic.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cuban-Canadian research project was developed during the last 10 years between scholars from the University of Winnipeg and the University of Havana, the University of Matanzas and The Cuban Institute for Anthropology in order to investigate problems and help build a more complex picture of migration and exchange within the Greater Antilles and between...

Culinary Contributions: What’s Cooking on Griddles in the Northern Caribbean (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andy Ciofalo. Corinne L. Hofman.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in the Archaeology of the Bahama Archipelago" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Precolonial foodways in the northern Caribbean have received restricted investigations. This paper is a synopsis of microbotanical residues extracted from clay griddles (flat cooking plates) excavated from three archaeological sites: El Flaco, La Luperona, and Palmetto Junction. Social identities are strongly linked to cultural...

"Cultivating" Salt: Human Ecology of the Saltpans of the Venezuelan Caribbean, 16th–19th Century (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Konrad Antczak. Miguel Lentino.

This paper discusses a diachronic human ecological approach to the interaction between humans and saltpans in the Venezuelan Caribbean from the 16th to the 19th century. This research is based on historical archaeological and oral historical evidence marshaled to understand the dynamics of past solar salt production, and the impacts of the natural environment on the final product’s output and quality. “Tending” a saltpan was not always straightforward business as knowledge of the weather...

Cultural Adaptation and Resistance on St. John: Three Centuries of Afro-Caribbean Life (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen F. Olwig.

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Cultural Diversity and Transculturation in the Pre-Columbian Indigenous Universe of Northern Hispaniola (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jorge Ulloa Hung.

The island of Hispaniola has been considered an initial place by the formation of creoles cultures in the Caribbean and the Americas. This consideration has been founded on the study of the socio-economic dynamics and cultural transformation generated by the European colonial irruption, specially the creation of first Spanish colonial settlement on the island. At the same time, generate an excessive dependency of archaeological data of ethnohistorical sources, and formalized a reductionist...

Cultural Heritage and Climate Action: the DUNAS Project (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabel Rivera-Collazo. Mariela Declet-Pérez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The climate crisis is a social issue, and social sciences are needed to understand and address it. Archaeology has recognized that it stands in an unparalleled position to contribute to the climate conversation because 1) it has thousands of years of recorded climate change coupled with human response, 2) it can help to understand the nuances of risk in the...

Cultural Heritage Landscapes Post-disaster in Barbuda, Lesser Antilles (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sophia Perdikaris. Edith Gonzalez.

This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this presentation, we will examine Barbuda’s landscape from a diachronic perspective. The ongoing tension between multiple man-made and natural disasters and a resilient people have successively modified Barbuda’s environment from the earliest peopling at 5000 BP extending to the present day. Big weather events,...

Cultural Interaction and Creolization (or Transculturation or Hybridization or Mestización or Criollización) in the Studies of the Ancient Past of the Caribbean (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only L. Antonio Curet.

Traditionally, the ancient history of the Caribbean is viewed as one where one culture replaces or dominates another through time. These views were highly influenced by the perspective of the early Anthropologists who saw intercultural relations through the colonial lens of dominant cultures and acculturation. Despite this emphasis on cultural "purity," the history of Caribbean archaeology includes several scholars who viewed cultural interaction more as an exchange of ideas and material...

Cultural Resources Literature Review and Management Plan: Proposed Off-Post Army Training Sites, Puerto Rico (Draft) (1989)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. W. Joseph.

Cultural Resources Survey of Two Disposal Sites and a Debris Basin, Rio de Caguitas, Caguas, Puerto Rico (1992)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher T. Espenshade.

Cultural Resources Survey Phase IA and IB of the Proposed Carmel By the Sea Condominiums Located In the Vicinity of Turner Hole, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (Revised) (1989)