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On Land and Sea
2008,2004
Overview
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 both beneficial and harmful ways.
On Land and Sea examines the condition of biosystems
on Caribbean islands at the time of colonization, human
interactions with those systems through time, and the current
state of biological resources in the West Indies. Drawing on a
massive data set collected from long-term archaeological
research, the study reconstructs past lifeways on these small
tropical islands. The work presents a wide range of
information, including types of fuel and construction timber
used by inhabitants, cooking techniques for various shellfish,
availability and use of medicinal and ritual plants, the
effects on native plants and animals of cultivation and
domestication, and diet and nutrition of native
populations.
The islands of the Caribbean basin continue to be actively
excavated and studied in the quest to understand the earliest
human inhabitants of the New World. This comprehensive work
will ground current and future studies and will be valuable to
archaeologists, anthropologists, botanists, ecologists,
Caribbeanists, Latin American historians, and anyone studying
similar island environments.
Publisher
University of Alabama Press,The University of Alabama Press
Subject
/ Animal remains (Archaeology) -- West Indies
/ Ecology
/ History
/ Human-animal relationships -- West Indies
/ Human-plant relationships -- West Indies
/ Indians of the West Indies -- Ethnobotany
/ Indians of the West Indies -- Ethnozoology
/ Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- West Indies
ISBN
0817313141, 9780817313142, 9780817313159, 081731315X
