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 …

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 …

A review of recent research on complex hunter–gatherers in North America suggests that
age-old tensions between evolutionary and historical epistemologies continue to cultivate …

Despite the fact that the Taíno people of the Caribbean were the first Native Americans to
encounter and coexist with Europeans after 1492, there has been almost no archaeology of …

Radiocarbon (14C) dating is one of the most important tools for archaeologists. Although
radiocarbon dates provide a temporal foundation for analyzing the remains of past cultures …

The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology provides an overview of archaeological
investigations in the insular Caribbean, understood here as the islands whose shores …

Puerto Rico has played a pivotal role in the building of cultural chronology for the insular
Caribbean, and yet little systematic work has been conducted in recent decades to assess …

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 …

Starch and phytolith analyses of an assemblage of chert microliths from the Three Dog site,
an early Lucayan settlement on San Salvador, Bahamas, yielded Zea mays, Capsicum, and …

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 …