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Caribbean paleodemography : population, culture history, and sociopolitical processes in ancient Puerto Rico
Important information on prehistoric island populations and migrations. According to the European chronicles, at the time of contact, the Greater Antilles were inhabited by the Ta&iactue;nos or Arawak Indians, who were organized in hierarchical societies. Since its inception Caribbean archaeology has used population as an important variable in explaining many social, political, and economic processes such as migration, changes in subsistence systems, and the development of institutionalized social stratification. In Caribbean Paleodemography, L. Antonio Curet argues that population has been used casually by Caribbean archaeologists and proposes more rigorous and promising ways in which demographic factors can be incorporated in our modeling of past human behavior. He analyzes a number of demographic issues in island archaeology at various levels of analysis, including inter- and intra-island migration, carrying capacity, population structures, variables in prehistory, cultural changes, and the relationship with material culture and social development. With this work, Curet brings together the diverse theories on Greater Antilles island populations and the social and political forces governing their growth and migration.
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Islands at the Crossroads
A long sequence of social, cultural, and political
processes characterizes an ever-dynamic Caribbean history. The
Caribbean Basin is home to numerous linguistic and cultural
traditions and fluid interactions that often map imperfectly onto
former colonial and national traditions. Although much of this
contact occurred within the confines of local cultural
communities, regions, or islands, they nevertheless also include
exchanges between islands, and in some cases, with the
surrounding continents. recent research in the pragmatics of
seafaring and trade suggests that in many cases long-distance
intercultural interactions are crucial elements in shaping the
social and cultural dynamics of the local populations. The
contributors to
Islands at the Crossroads include scholars from the
Caribbean, the United States, and Europe who look beyond cultural
boundaries and colonial frontiers to explore the complex and
layered ways in which both distant and more intimate
sociocultural, political, and economic interactions have shaped
Caribbean societies from seven thousand years ago to recent
times.
Contributors Douglas V. Armstrong / Mary Jane
Berman / Arie Boomert / Alistair J. Bright / Richard T. Callaghan
/ L. Antonio Curet / Mark W. Hauser / Corinne L. Hofman / Menno
L. P. Hoogland / Kenneth G. Kelly / Sebastiaan Knippenberg /
Ingrid Newquist / Isabel C. Rivera-Collazo / Reniel
Rodríquez Ramos / Alice V. M. Samson / Peter E. Siegel /
Christian Williamson
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Arqueología para América Latina en el siglo XXI
objetivo/contexto: el propósito de este artículo es proveer el marco histórico y teórico de la arqueología latinoamericana para contextualizar los ensayos incluidos en este volumen. Se plantea que los cambios recientes en esta disciplina surgen como parte de una autoevaluación de los arqueólogos en relación con el origen colonialista de esta ciencia. Metodología: el artículo comienza con una breve discusión de los cambios significativos más recientes que han establecido nuevas normas en la disciplina, creados por la obligación del arqueólogo de enfrentarse a dos realidades. La primera es el mencionado origen colonialista de la arqueología, en especial cuando se considera la total ausencia del relato indígena en nuestras reconstrucciones de sus ancestros. La segunda es el avance del capitalismo y el desarrollo económico, acompañado por intereses políticos que incluyen, entre otras cosas, el uso de sitios y artefactos arqueológicos para el desarrollo turístico o el registro de su destrucción como antesala a proyectos industriales de infraestructura o extractivos. Se presenta un breve recuento de la disciplina en la región, desde el siglo XVIII hasta los movimientos nacionalistas y el presente, en el que también se plantea el reto de construir narrativas alternas a las propuestas por el eje hegemónico de las ciencias tradicionales y, sobre todo, de reconocer e incluir las voces silenciadas del pasado. Conclusiones: termina el texto presentando los artículos en este número y contextualizándolos brevemente dentro de esta nueva perspectiva en la arqueología de América Latina, para concluir que, en décadas recientes, la arqueología latinoamericana ha tomado nuevos rumbos como resultado de la reflexión sobre su pasado colonial. Originalidad: en particular, esta arqueología poscolonial, como la llaman algunos, nos reta a desarrollar perspectivas, métodos e interpretaciones alternas que sean más incluyentes y abarcadoras, a la vez que realistas. La contextualización del problema colonial dentro de las condiciones sociales, históricas, económicas y políticas de la región es clave para un entendimiento de esta arqueología emergente y para motivar un diálogo entre arqueólogos y partícipes del patrimonio, tanto en el ámbito nacional como en el internacional, que promueva una arqueología más justa e inclusiva.
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THEODOOR DE BOOY IN PUERTO RICO: AN UNTOLD STORY IN THE HISTORY OF CARIBBEAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Like many other regions throughout the world the colonial experience in the Caribbean included the arrival of foreign archaeologists conducting research and taking collections to their countries of origin. These were mostly composed of North American and European scholars representing different institutions such as museums, universities, or scientific academies. One of these expeditions poorly known by Caribbean, but more specifically by Puerto Rican archaeologists is the 1916 expedition of the Museum of the American Indian led by Theodoor de Booy. This paper describes and discusses this expedition within its institutional and historical context and how it relates to the early to the history of museums and archaeology. Como muchas otras regiones a través del mundo, la experiencia colonial del Caribe incluyó el arribo de arqueólogos extranjeros para investigar sitios y llevarse colecciones a sus países de origen. Éstos se componían mayormente de académicos norteamericanos y europeos que representaban instituciones como museos, universidades o academias científicas. Una de estas expediciones poco conocida por los arqueólogos del Caribe es la expedición del Museo del Indio Americano a Puerto Rico en 1916 dirigida por Theodoor de Booy. Este trabajo discute esta expedición dentro de su contexto institucional e histórico y cómo se relaciona con la historia temprana de los museos y de la disciplina de la arqueología. Comme cela fut le cas dans de nombreuses autres régions du monde, l'experience coloniale de la Caraïbe s'est traduite par l'arrivée d'archéologues étrangers venus fouiller des sites pour ramener ensuite leurs découvertes dans leurs pays d'origine. Dans le cas de la Caraïbe, ces archéologues se composaient essentiellement de chercheurs nordaméricains et européens qui travaillaient pour des institutions comme des musées, des universités ou des sociétés savantes. Parmi ces expéditions figure celle, peu connue des archéologues de la Caraïbe, du Museo del Indio Americano effectuée à Porto Rico en 1916 et dirigée par Theodoor de Booy. Cette contribution resitue l'expédition dans son contexte institutionnel et historique, puis en étudie les liens avec les débuts de l'histoire des musées et de l'archéologie.
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Beyond the Blockade
This innovative volume builds on dialogues opened in recent years between Cuban archaeologists, whose work has long been carried out behind closed doors, and their international colleagues.  The chapters included herein span a wide range of subjects across the full chronological spectrum.  Most were written by emerging Cuban professionals who are breaking new ground; a few were penned by long-time leaders in the field.   Issues addressed by the 17 contributors represented in this collection include the long-term cultural and intellectual links between Florida and Cuba, which influence shared research goals today; the limitations of theoretical frameworks for archaeology defined in the wake of the Cuban Revolution, and how to overcome them; the challenges involved in charting out the earliest human occupations on the island; the processes of Indo-Hispanic transculturation during the Colonial epoch; late pre-Colombian links between the Taínos of eastern Cuba and the rest of the Greater Antilles; and the theoretical and practical tensions between architectural restoration and the practice of scientific urban historical archaeology.  Thus this volume makes a crucial contribution to the field of archaeology on many fronts, not the least of which is the sharing of information across the blockade.
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Tibes : people, power, and ritual at the center of the cosmos
The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto Rico. The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and on the other two sides by hills, this approximately 10.5-acre site remains as fertile and productive today as when first occupied over 2,000 years ago. Such a rich region would have been a choice location for native peoples because of the diversity in all resources, from land, air, and sea--and also symbolically crucial as a liminal space within the landscape. It may have been regarded as a space charged with numen or cosmic energy where different parts of the cosmos (natural vs. supernatural, or world of the living vs. world of the dead) overlap. Archaeological evidence reveals a long occupation, about 1,000 years, possibly followed by an extensive period of sporadic ceremonial use after the site itself was practically abandoned. In this volume, nineteen Caribbeanists, across a wide academic spectrum, examine the geophysical, paleoethnobotanical, faunal, lithics, base rock, osteology, bone chemistry and nutrition, social landscape, and ceremonial constructs employed at Tibes. These scholars provide a concise, well-presented, comprehensive analysis of the evidence for local level changes in household economy, internal organization, accessibility to economic, religious, and symbolic resources related to the development and internal operation of socially stratified societies in the Caribbean.
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Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology
Provides a politically and historically informed review of Cuban archaeology, from both American and Cuban perspectives. Many Americans are aware of the political, economic, and personal impacts of the U.S. embargo on Cuba. But the communication blockade between scholars has also affected the historical course of academic disciplines and research in general. With the easing of restrictions in the 1990s, academics are now freer to conduct research in Cuba, and the Cuban government has been more receptive to collaborative projects. This volume provides a forum for the principal Cuban and American archaeologists to update the current state of Cuban archaeological research--from rock art and potsherds to mortuary practices and historical renovation--thereby filling in the information gap created by the political separation. Each group of researchers brings significant new resources to the effort, including strong conservation regulations, innovative studies of lithic and shell assemblages, and transculturation theories. Cuban research on the hacienda system, slavery, and urban processes has in many ways anticipated developments in North American archaeology by a decade or more. Of special interest are the recent renovation projects in Old Havana that fully integrate the work of historians, architects, and archaeologists--a model project conducted by agreement between the Cuban government and UNESCO. The selection of papers for this collection is based on a desire to answer pressing research questions of interest for North American Caribbeanists and to present a cross-section of Cuban archaeological work. With this volume, then, the principal players present results of recent collaborations and begin a renewed conversation, a dialogue, that can provide a foundation for future coordinated efforts.
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Prehispanic Social and Cultural Changes at Tibes, Puerto Rico
we present here the initial results of the Proyecto Arqueológico del Centro Ceremonial de Tibes. The aim of the project is to study changes in the social, political, and economic systems at Tibes, the earliest civic and ceremonial center in the Caribbean. Tibes was founded as a village around A.D. 1, and sometime between A.D. 600 and A.D. 900 experienced major changes that eventually resulted in the development of a center with multiple ball courts and plazas. The ceramic, faunal, and radiometric evidence suggest that multiple factors were operating at different times during the transformation process. While some of these factors are found in other regions of Puerto Rico, others are evidently unique to Tibes. Traditional regional definitions of cultural periods and areas were not adequate units of analysis to study many of the local and short-term social and political processes that occurred.
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