new methods and techniques in the study of archaeological materials from the Caribbean Hofman, Corinne Lisette 1959- Hoogland, Menno Lambertus Pieter 1954- Gijn, Annelou L. van 1954- Society for American Archaeology Meeting (71st : 2006 : San Juan, P.R.) ebrary, Inc text bibliography conference publication Electronic books. alu Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press c2008 2008 monographic eng

electronic

electronic resource

xii, 293 p. : ill., maps. Crossing disciplinary boundaries and national borders : new methods and techniques in the study of archaeological materials from the Caribbean / Corinne L. Hofman, Menno L.P. Hoogland, and Annelou L. van Gijn -- In tuneful threefold : combining conventional archaeological methods, archaeometric techniques, and ethnoarchaeological research in the study of precolonial pottery of the Caribbean / Corinne L. Hofman ... [et al.] -- American gold and European brass : metal objects and indigenous values in the cemetery of El Chorro de Ma�ita, Cuba / Jago Cooper, Marcos Martin�on-Torres, and Roberto Valc�arcel Rojas -- Chert sourcing in the northern Lesser Antilles : the use of geochemical techniques in discriminating chert materials / Sebastiaan Knippenberg and Johannes J.P. Zijlstra -- A new material to view the past : dental alginate molds of friable artifacts / Charlene Dixon Hutcheson -- Saladoid lapidary technology : new methods for investigating stone bead drilling techniques / Christy de Mille, Tamara Varney, and Michael Turney -- Lithic technology : a way to more complex diversity in Caribbean archaeology / Beno�it B�erard -- Tool use and technological choices : an integral approach toward functional analysis of Caribbean tool assemblages / Annelou L. van Gijn, Yvonne Lammers-Keijsers, and Iris Briels -- Understanding the function of coral tools from Anse �a la Gourde : an experimental approach / Harold J. Kelly and Annelou L. van Gijn -- The significance of wear and residue studies : an example from Plum Piece, Saba / Channah J. Nieuwenhuis -- Starch residues on lithic artifacts from two contrasting contexts in northwestern Puerto Rico : Los Muertos Cave and Vega de Nelo Vargas farmstead / Jaime R. Pag�an Jim�enez and Jos�e R. Oliver -- The bur�en in precolonial Cuban archaeology : new information regarding the use of plants and ceramic griddles during the late Ceramic Age of eastern Cuba gathered through starch analysis / Roberto Rodr�iguez Su�arez and Jaime R. Pag�an Jim�enez -- Caribbean paleoethnobotany : present status and new horizons (understanding the evolution of an indigenous ethnobotany) / Lee A. Newsom -- New evidence of two different migratory waves in the circum-Caribbean area during the pre-Columbian period from the analysis of dental morphological traits / Alfredo Coppa ... [et al.] -- Tracing human mobility with 87Sr/86Sr at Anse �a la Gourde, Guadeloupe / Mathijs A. Booden ... [et al.] -- Epilogue: The correct answer requires the right question (and the technology to back it up) / William F. Keegan. edited by Corinne L. Hofman, Menno L.P. Hoogland, and Annelou L. van Gijn. Outcome of a symposium held at the 71st Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Puerto Rico in April 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-284) and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. nw----- Indians of the West Indies Antiquities Congresses Excavations (Archaeology) West Indies Congresses Archaeology West Indies Methodology Congresses West Indies Antiquities Congresses F1619 .C76 2008eb 972.9/01072 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10309825 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10309825 CaPaEBR 070626 ebr10309825