On land and sea : Native American uses of biological resources in the West Indies / Lee A. Newsom and Elizabeth S. Wing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newsom, Lee A.

Contributor:

Wing, Elizabeth S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of the West Indies--Ethnobotany.

Indians of the West Indies.

Indians of the West Indies--Ethnozoology.

Indigenous peoples--Ecology--West Indies.

Indigenous peoples.

Human-plant relationships--West Indies.

Human-plant relationships.

Human-animal relationships--West Indies.

Human-animal relationships.

Plant remains (Archaeology)--West Indies.

Plant remains (Archaeology).

Animal remains (Archaeology)--West Indies.

Animal remains (Archaeology).

West Indies--Antiquities.

West Indies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the vast stretches of early geologic time, the islands of the Caribbean archipelago separated from continental land masses, rose and sank many times, merged with and broke from other land masses, and then by the mid-Cenozoic period settled into the current pattern known today. By the time Native Americans arrived, the islands had developed complex, stable ecosystems. The actions these first colonists took on the landscape-timber clearing, cultivation, animal hunting and domestication, fishing and exploitation of reef species-affected fragile land and sea biotic communities in b

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. An Introduction to Native American Uses of Biological Resources in the West Indies; 2. Environmental Setting; 3. Human Colonization of the West Indies; 4. Sources of Plant and Animal Samples and Methods Used to Study Them; 5. Southern Caribbean Region; 6. Lesser Antilles; 7. Greater Antilles and the Virgin Islands; 8. Bahamas Archipelago; 9. Toward a Synthetic Caribbean Paleoethnobiology; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; References Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-301) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8212-7

OCLC:

320323778