Name: On Land and Sea: Native American Uses of Biological Resources in the West Indies (en Inglés)
SKU: 19201180
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Author: Lee A. Newsom; Elizabeth S. Wing
ISBN: 9780817313159

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On Land and Sea: Native American Uses of Biological Resources in the West Indies (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Alabama Press

Autor

Lee A. Newsom; Elizabeth S. Wing

Año

2004

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

344

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

081731315x

ISBN13

9780817313159

Categorías

Islas del caribe
Historia de américa

On Land and Sea: Native American Uses of Biological Resources in the West Indies (en Inglés)

Lee A. Newsom; Elizabeth S. Wing (Autor) · University Alabama Press · Tapa Blanda

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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.