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The first peopling of the antilles The first peopling of the antilles
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The domestication of the antillean archipelago The domestication of the antillean archipelago
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9 The Humanization of the Insular Caribbean
Get accessReniel Rodríguez Ramos (Ph.D. University of Florida, 2007) is an Assistant Professor at the Universidad de Puerto Rico-Utuado and a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University. His main areas of interest have been the study of lithic technologies and the interaction dynamics registered in the Caribbean in precolonial times.
Jaime R. Pagán-Jiménez (Ph.D. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2005) was awarded with the Medalla Alfonso Caso al Mérito Universitario. He is currently Adjunct Professor at the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe and Research Affiliate in Caribbean Archaeology at Leiden University. He is also an Independent Researcher with the Herbario, Department of Biology, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, and Research Director at EK, Consultores en Arqueología. His current research examines the paleoethnobotany of the Caribbean islands and the sociopolitics of archaeology in the Caribbean and Latin America.
Corinne L. Hofman (Ph.D. Leiden University, 1993) is Professor of Caribbean Archaeology at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Since the 1980s she has been conducting archaeological research on many islands of the Lesser and Greater Antilles for which she has been awarded prestigious grants from the Netherlands Foundation for Scientific Research (NWO).
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Published:03 June 2013
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Abstract
This article notes that the initial layer of insular Caribbean cultural stratigraphy was forged by navigators who ventured in the first open-sea treks registered in the Western Hemisphere after the initial peopling of the Americas. Current understanding of the discoverers of the islands has changed dramatically in the past decade due to data generated from the discovery of new sites and the application of novel techniques. Newfound evidence demonstrates not only the existence of a very plural and dynamic cultural and social landscape during the early peopling of the archipelago but also the marked influence that these primeval societies had on the transformation of the insular into an artifact following their arrival. The article discusses some of these recent lines of evidence and provides guidelines regarding their implications for understanding the social and cultural configurations of the earliest inhabitants of the Antilles.
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