Constructing monuments, perceiving monumentality and the economics of building
Theoretical and methodological approaches to the built environment
Edited by Ann Brysbaert, Victor Klinkenberg, Anna Gutiérrez Garcia-M., Irene Vikatou | 2018
In many societies monuments are associated with dynamic socio-economic and political processes that these societies underwent and/or instrumentalised. Due to the often large human and other resources input involved in their construction and maintenance, such…
Seascape Corridors
Modeling Routes to Connect Communities Across the Caribbean Sea
Emma Ruth Slayton | 2018
There is little evidence of the routes connecting Amerindian communities in the Caribbean prior to and just after 1492. Uncovering possible canoe routes between these communities can help to explain the structure, capabilities, and limitations…
The Social Museum in the Caribbean
Grassroots Heritage Initiatives and Community Engagement
Csilla E. Ariese | 2018
A mosaic is the only image which can do justice to museums in the Caribbean. They are as diverse and plentiful as the many communities which form the cores of their organizations and the hearts…
Landscape, Land-Change & Well-Being in the Lesser Antilles
Case Studies from the coastal villages of St. Kitts and the Kalinago Territory, Dominica
Charlotte Eloise Stancioff | 2018
In the Caribbean region, landscape change is part of the region’s history. The Caribbean exemplifies man-made changes to landscape, beginning with Amerindians, continuing to the importation of exotic species through the colony area, extreme land…
Una Isla, Dos Mundos
Estudio arqueológico sobre el paisaje indígena de Haytí y su transformación al paisaje colonial de La Española (1200-1550)
Eduardo Herrera Malatesta | 2018
Para las poblaciones indígenas la llegada de Colon al Caribe en 1492 significó una transformación y reestructuración de su mundo, incluyendo cambios a niveles culturales, sociales, económicos y políticos. En este trabajo se proponen modelos…
Approvisionner Cayenne sous l’Ancien Régime
Archéologie et histoire des réseaux commerciaux
Catherine Losier | 2016
Cet ouvrage documente le réseau commercial de la Guyane de l’Ancien Régime par l’analyse du mobilier archéologique issu des fouilles de six habitations guyanaises, de même que par l’exploitation des archives de la correspondance officielle…
The indigenous peoples of Trinidad and Tobago from the first settlers until today
Arie Boomert | 2016
This study relates the vicissitudes of the Amerindian peoples who lived or still inhabit the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, from the earliest occupants, ca. 8000 BC, until at present. Using archaeological, ethnohistorical and linguistic…
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Constructing monuments, perceiving monumentality and the economics of building
Theoretical and methodological approaches to the built environment
Edited by Ann Brysbaert, Victor Klinkenberg, Anna Gutiérrez Garcia-M., Irene Vikatou | 2018
In many societies monuments are associated with dynamic socio-economic and political processes that these societies underwent and/or instrumentalised. Due to the often large human and other resources input involved in their construction and maintenance, such…
Seascape Corridors
Modeling Routes to Connect Communities Across the Caribbean Sea
Emma Ruth Slayton | 2018
There is little evidence of the routes connecting Amerindian communities in the Caribbean prior to and just after 1492. Uncovering possible canoe routes between these communities can help to explain the structure, capabilities, and limitations…
The Social Museum in the Caribbean
Grassroots Heritage Initiatives and Community Engagement
Csilla E. Ariese | 2018
A mosaic is the only image which can do justice to museums in the Caribbean. They are as diverse and plentiful as the many communities which form the cores of their organizations and the hearts…
Landscape, Land-Change & Well-Being in the Lesser Antilles
Case Studies from the coastal villages of St. Kitts and the Kalinago Territory, Dominica
Charlotte Eloise Stancioff | 2018
In the Caribbean region, landscape change is part of the region’s history. The Caribbean exemplifies man-made changes to landscape, beginning with Amerindians, continuing to the importation of exotic species through the colony area, extreme land…
Una Isla, Dos Mundos
Estudio arqueológico sobre el paisaje indígena de Haytí y su transformación al paisaje colonial de La Española (1200-1550)
Eduardo Herrera Malatesta | 2018
Para las poblaciones indígenas la llegada de Colon al Caribe en 1492 significó una transformación y reestructuración de su mundo, incluyendo cambios a niveles culturales, sociales, económicos y políticos. En este trabajo se proponen modelos…
Approvisionner Cayenne sous l’Ancien Régime
Archéologie et histoire des réseaux commerciaux
Catherine Losier | 2016
Cet ouvrage documente le réseau commercial de la Guyane de l’Ancien Régime par l’analyse du mobilier archéologique issu des fouilles de six habitations guyanaises, de même que par l’exploitation des archives de la correspondance officielle…
The indigenous peoples of Trinidad and Tobago from the first settlers until today
Arie Boomert | 2016
This study relates the vicissitudes of the Amerindian peoples who lived or still inhabit the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, from the earliest occupants, ca. 8000 BC, until at present. Using archaeological, ethnohistorical and linguistic…
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