Archaeology and geoinformatics : case studies from the Caribbean / edited by Basil A. Reid.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reid, Basil A., 1961-

Series:

Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.

Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of the West Indies--Antiquities.

Indians of the West Indies.

Archaeological geology--Caribbean Area.

Archaeological geology.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Geographic information systems--Caribbean Area.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Caribbean Area--Antiquities.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Addressing the use of geoinformatics in Caribbean archaeology, this volume is based on case studies drawn from specific island territories, namely, Barbados, St. John, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Nevis, St. Eustatius, and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as inter-island interaction and landscape conceptualization in the Caribbean region. Geoinformatics is especially critical within the Caribbean where site destruction is intense due to storm surges, hurricanes, ocean and riverine erosion, urbanization, industrialization, and agriculture, as well as commercial development along the very waterfronts

Contents:

The Caribbean : a continent divided by water / Joshua M. Torres and Reniel Rodríguez Ramos

Developing weights-of-evidence predictive models for the cultural resource management of pre-columbian sites in Trinidad / Basil A. Reid

Forward planning : the utilization of GIS in the management of archaeological resources in Barbados / Kevin Farmer

Developing an archaeological information system for Trinidad and Tobago / Bheshem Ramlal and Basil A. Reid

Maps, matricals, and material remains : an archaeological GIS of late-eighteenth-century historic sites on St. John, Danish West Indies / Douglas V. Armstrong ... [et al.]

Understanding Nevis : GPS and archaeological field survey in a postcolonial landscape / Roger H. Leech

The use of imagery to locate Taino sites in Jamaica in a GIS environment / Parris Lyew-Ayee and Ivor Conolley

Geophysics and the search for Raleigh's outpost on Trinidad / Eric Klingelhofer

Geophysics and volcanic islands : resistivity and gradiometry on St. Eustatius / R. Grant Gilmore III

Postscript: Archaeology and geoinformatics from a Caribbeanist perspective / Basil A. Reid.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-224) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8053-1

OCLC:

608573875