More than providing simply nutritive value, food in human societies can be endowed with
great social weight. Aspects of any given food system inform, and are informed by, a variety …

Once considered a backwater of New World prehistory, the Caribbean has now emerged
from the archaeological shadows as a critical region for answering a host of questions …

The islands of the Caribbean are remarkably diverse, environmentally and culturally. They
range from low limestone islands barely above sea level to volcanic islands with …

Islands have long been recognized as distinctive evolutionary arenas leading to
morphologically divergent species, such as dwarfs and giants. We assessed how body size …

The legendary El Dorado—the city of gold—remains a mere legend, but astonishing new
discoveries are revealing a major civilization in ancient Amazonia that was more complex …

Abstract The Caribbean Sea was centre stage in the earliest, sustained encounters between
the New and Old Worlds, heralding the mass movement of people, goods and ideas …

Latin American archaeology has been influenced by the world theoretical context, from
which it has developed original approaches. Currently, a culture-history conceptual …

Irving Rouse once calculated that more than 90% of all pre-Columbian artifacts from the
West Indies are made of clay. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that the vast majority …

Applying the legend of the" stranger king" to Caonabo, the mythologized Taino chief of the
Hispaniola settlement Columbus invaded in 1492, Keegan examines how myths come to …

Rejecting traditional notions of what constitutes art, this book brings together essays on a
variety of fiber arts to recoup women's artistic practices by redefining what counts as art …