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

Summary

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 Cuba and the adjacent continental areas. Our project, using a multidisciplinary approach involving archaeology, bioarchaeology, isotope analysis, paleoethnobotany, bathymetry, ancient DNA, and toponomastics, was concentrated so far on two regions: the Canímar River basin (especially the site of Canímar Abajo) in the west (Matanzas Province), and the Cauto region (especially the site of Playa del Mango) in the east (Granma Province). This contribution will present some important results of our project showing very early use of (exotic and local) cultivated plants, the concurrent existence of two different subsistence systems in Cuba as reflected in the cultural norms and biological profiles of supposedly Archaic Age groups, and their survival till the end of the 1st millennium CE.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25642