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    Abaco Red Ware pottery267, 270
    Abbot of Jamaica’s 1611 census254
    African diseases107
    African rock art (historic)489
    Agorsah, E. Kofi259
    Aguacadiba village (Jamaica)253
    Aguas Gordas (Cuba)240
    Aikhenvald, A.114
    Alligator Pond site (Jamaica)179
    Ambilateral descent86
    Anderson, Benedict558
    Anthropophagy97
    Apostaderan series149
    Apuré River64
    Arawak (“Allouagues”)105
    Archaeological Society of Jamaica251
    Arecibo-39 site (Puerto Rico)398
    Arrow poison101
    Austrian Academy of Sciences440
    Axis mundi85
    Bahama Channel53
    Ballouöouri12
    Banes region (Cuba)243
    Bani style14
    Bannerstones130
    Barbacoa (barbeque)72, 271
    Barbakoeba Culture400
    Barka, Norman530
    Bastidas Mountains (Jamaica)254
    Beads, carnelian (African)533
    Beauvoir-Dominique, Rachel499
    Bentley, R. A.419
    Berman, Mary Jane271
    Berna Cave (Dominican Republic)492
    Bipolar flaking technique134, 187
    Birgits site (Antigua)128
    Bismarck Archipelago143
    Black River (Jamaica)286
    Blench, Robert122
    Bloody Point (St. Kitts)455
    Blue Hole, Lighthouse Reef (Belize)52
    Blue Marlin site (Jamaica)256
    Blue River (Trinidad)148
    Boca del Soca site (Dominican Republic)412
    Bombardettas275
    Bottom Bay site (Jamaica)254, 255
    Boucher, P. P.107
    Braudel, Fernand3
    Brendan, Father9
    Brimstone Hill (St. Kitts)529
    Brinton, Daniel11
    British Columbia475
    British Virgin Islands488
    Brumfiel, Elizabeth M.561
    Buku Maroon site (Suriname)551
    Bullen, Adelaide K.439
    Burial Cave 1 (Crooked Island, Bahamas)412
    Cabaret site (Haiti)11
    Cabo Maisí (Cuba)68
    Cabot, John9
    Caimanes III site (Cuba)235, 239
    Canary Islands275
    Canashitu site (Aruba)411
    Cannibales97
    Capobianco, Kristy M.299
    Caquetio language114
    Caracolí (karakoulis)101, 509
    Caraïbes12
    Caraipé temper151
    Caribbean Commission Secretariat (CARICOM)47
    Carlson, Lizabeth A.273
    Carneiro, Robert116
    Carumano zone (Venezuela)185
    Casimiran (Casimiroid) subseries198
    Cauto River (Cuba)236
    Cayo Cofresí site (Puerto Rico)63
    Cayo Jourajuría (Cuba)134
    Cayo Redondo Culture237
    Cedros complex144
    Ceiba tree72
    Ceiba-11 site (Puerto Rico)398
    Ceiba-33 site (Puerto Rico)399
    Ceremonial architecture350, 356
    Chagonary site (Trinidad)147
    Chalky Mount potters (Barbados)534
    Champlain, Samuel de104
    Chancery Lane site (Barbados)455
    Chane Culture114
    Chang, K. C.86
    Charlotte Amalie (St. Thomas, USVI)529
    Chaure complex147
    Chemin Saint-Louis site (French Guiana)400
    Chiriguano Culture114
    Chowdhury, Amitava549
    Cibao Valley (Dominican Republic)224, 228
    Cinnamon Bay site (St. John, USVI)509, 510
    Cinnamon Hill site (Jamaica)255, 257
    Clark, Grahame436
    Clerc, Edgar454
    Cody, Ann K.187
    Cognatic kinship86
    Coleraine site (Jamaica)255, 258
    Columbus, Bartolomé319
    Columbus Channel142
    Columbus, Diego253
    Columbus, Ferdinand9
    Columbus Quincentenary23
    Conception Island (Bahamas)275
    Cooper, Jago300
    Cordillera Central (Dominican Republic)7
    Cordillera Septentrional (Hispaniola)7, 224
    Corintia III site (Cuba)235, 239
    Corktree site (GT-4, Grand Turk)226, 266
    Costa, Matthew de549
    Costa de Perlas (Nicaragua)508
    Cotton Cay (Grand Turk)266, 275
    Cotuan complex184
    Courland complex144
    Crespo-Torres, Edwin440
    Crosshatched design270
    Cubagua Island4, 275
    Cueva de Berna site (Dominican Republic)438
    Cueva de la Cida site (Dominican Republic)499–500
    Cueva de Mora site (Puerto Rico)489
    Cueva Los Caracoles site (Puerto Rico)128
    Cueva Tembladera site (Puerto Rico)158
    Cuevas style pottery455
    Cumana area (Venezuela)104
    Dabajuroid4
    Damajaybo sites (Cuba)235, 240
    Diversity, mortuary practices465
    Dizac site (Martinique)190
    Dolmatoff, Reichel163
    Dove Cay (South Caicos)226
    Drax Hall plantation (Jamaica)531
    Duerden, J. E.250
    Dupont, Mr. and Mrs. Alexi529
    du Tertre, Father9, 106
    East End community (St. John, USVI)532
    Edilio Cruz site (Dominican Republic)398
    El Atajadizo site (Dominican Republic)438
    El Bronce site (Puerto Rico)120, 215
    El Cuartel site (Venezuela)185
    El Horno site (Colombia)163
    El Mayal site (Venezuela)185
    El Moro (Puerto Rico)529
    El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)49, 242
    El Popi site (Dominican Republic)398
    Ensenada Honda (Puerto Rico)306
    Ericson, Leif9
    Escape site (St. Vincent)455
    Esmeralda village (Venezuela)290
    Esperanza style212
    Etang Rouge site (St. Martin)128
    Ethnoarchaeology28
    Evans, Clifford165
    Farmer, Kevin299
    Faron, Louis C.113
    Febles, Jorge130
    Filomena Guerra, María516
    Finca style14
    First Painted Horizon163
    Fishing fids271
    Fishing with remora fish72
    Fitzpatrick, Scott M.165
    Flannery, Kent302
    Florida Current292
    Fond-Brûlé site (Martinique)186
    Forest, subtropical dry380
    Fort Center site (Florida, US)289
    Fort Christian (St. Thomas, USVI)529
    Fort Shirley (Dominica)529
    French Revolution533
    Friendship complex145
    Galways Plantation (Montserrat)526, 532
    Gathering, social215
    Geoinformatics299
    Gibbs Cay (Grand Turk)225, 265
    Goanin Island505
    Godreau, Isar564
    Goodwin, R. Christopher437, 438
    Google Earth306
    Gordon Hill Cave (Crooked Island, Bahamas)412
    Gordillo, Francisco275
    Governour’s Beach site (GT-2, Grand Turk)225, 228, 266
    Gower, Charlotte.24
    Grande Anse Interior Incised145
    Great Bay site (Jamaica)356
    Great Lakes (North America)475, 476
    Greenland Ice Cores49
    Grey, Dorick259
    Guacanagarí507
    Guana Culture114
    Guanín Island505
    Guarch, José M.238
    Guarguapo Complex (Trinidad)147, 149
    Guayabitan period150
    Guayaguayare site (Trinidad)151
    Gulf coast of Mexico475
    Gulf of Paria142
    Gun Barrel site (Jamaica)545
    Gutiérrez Calvache, D. A.487, 489
    Hacienda Grande site (Puerto Rico)410
    Haitian Revolution546
    Halifax (Canada)551
    Hamilakis, Yannis319
    Hamilton, D. l.530
    Handbook of South American Indians38
    Harris matrices295
    Hardtack72
    Hartford Cave (Rum Cay, Bahamas)273
    Hato to Rincon Zone (Curaçao)500
    Hatt, Gudmund24
    Hauser, Mark530
    Heart-shaped stones135
    Hichmans Shell Heap site (Nevis)128
    Hieronymite Interrogatory (1517)571
    Highborn Cay (Exuma, Bahamas)276
    Higuey province (Dominican Republic)338
    Hillcrest site (Barbados)455
    Historiography546
    Horse Cay (South Caicos)226
    Hueyou (Carib chief)99
    Hulme, Peter12
    Human Relations Area Files (HRAF)86
    Imperial Lighthouse Cave (Abaco, Bahamas)412
    Inagua (Bahamas)270
    Indian Creek site (Antigua)37, 120
    Indio River (Puerto Rico)128
    Indios flecheros11
    Infrastructure526
    Institute of Nautical Archaeology (Texas A&M)530
    Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (ICP)562
    Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)47, 49
    Iridescent Period159
    Irwin, Geoffrey143
    Jácanas site (PO-29, PR)563
    Jacksonville Cave (East Caicos)273
    Jaketown site (Mississippi, US)130, 238
    Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT)251
    Jamaican indigenous tribes253
    Jardines de la Reina, (Cuba)10
    Jewish community on Nevis527, 533
    Jolly Beach site (Antigua)128
    Jones, Sharyn379
    Jones, Siân561
    Jönsson Marquet, Sofia488
    Juan Dolio site (Dominican Republic)412
    Kelley, David289
    King Helmet site (Puerto Rico)398
    Kokama-Omagua language114
    Koski-Karel, Daniel A.298
    Kozlowski, J. K.130
    Krum Bay site (St. Thomas, USVI)128, 134
    L’Anse Sainte-Marguerite site (Guadeloupe)413
    La Cucama site (Dominican Republic)438
    La Caleta site (Dominican Republic)179
    La Catedral Cave (Puerto Rico)49
    La Escondida de Buscuey site (Cuba)235, 239
    La generación del30, 562
    La Gruta site (Venezuela)179, 184
    La Isabela (Dominican Republic)422, 427
    La Lune 1 site (Trinidad)147
    La Unión site (Dominican Republic)438
    La Voute à Minguet site (Haiti)500
    Lago Valencia site (Venezuela)165
    Laguna Tortuguero (Puerto Rico)395
    Lake Agassiz54
    Lake Chichancanab (Yucatan)287
    Lake Maracaibo (Venezuela)63, 64
    Lake Miragoane (Haiti)53, 287
    Landsat ETM+301
    Landscapes of power529
    Las Aves Island4
    Las Islas de los Lucayos11, 276
    Latin American Social Archaeology365, 367
    Lead isotopes419
    LeFebvre, Michelle386
    Le Trois Rivières Archaeological Park (Guadeloupe)500
    Lifeline model335
    Lingual Surface Attrition of Maxillary Anterior Teeth (LSAMAT)443
    Link, Marian529
    Loma de La Forestal site (Cuba)235, 240
    Longue durée116
    López Belando, Adolfo487, 489
    Los Buchillones site (Cuba)422, 427
    Los Testigos Islands (Venezuela)143, 150
    Lucero Cave (Puerto Rico)497
    Luna Calderón, Fernando439
    Lyew-Ayce, P.299
    MacArthur, Robert3
    Magua cacicazgo316
    Maima village (Jamaica)253
    Maison, Sociétés à (House Societies)117, 317, 363
    Malambo site (Colombia)162
    Manigat Cave (Haiti)412
    Manzanilla 1 site (Trinidad)150, 456
    Marac site (Trinidad)151
    Marajó site (Brazil)119
    María de La Cruz Cave (Puerto Rico)175
    Marquardt, William H.289
    Martinón-Torres, Marcos516
    Mason, J. Alden365
    Matanzas province (Cuba)397
    Matunherí73
    Matuwari Maroons (Matawai)546
    Maunabo Valley (Puerto Rico)87
    Maunday’s Bay site (Anguilla)412
    Maussian exchange theory332
    Mayabonex79
    Mazaruni River (Guyana)518
    MC-12 (Middle Caicos)88, 268
    MC-32 (Middle Caicos)275
    Meggers, Betty J.165
    Mendez, Diego253
    Mercator map252
    Michener, James10
    Mimbres Valley (New Mexico, US)51
    Modes of Religiosity theory498
    Mol, Angus A.318
    Molasses Reef shipwreck (West Caicos)276
    Momil I site (Colombia)238
    Monserrate site (Puerto Rico)87, 509
    Montecristi (Dominican Republic)514
    Mora Cave (Puerto Rico)497
    Morgan, Lewis Henry363
    Moriche/Buriti Palm (Mauritia flexuosa)119
    Morne Cybèle site (La Dèsirade)211
    Morne Souffleur site (La Dèsirade)211
    Motagua Fault Zone160
    Moulton-Barrett, Edward251
    Mountain River Cave (Jamaica)500
    Mount Scenery (Saba)213
    Mountain River Cave (Jamaica)500
    Mt. Misery maroon site (St. Kitts)551
    Mt. Pelée volcano (Martinique)526
    Mulligan, Connie J.472
    Mullu (Spondylus sp.)162
    Munn, Nancy D.322
    Museum of the American Indian (Heye Foundation)23
    Nacou bay (Guadeloupe)104
    Nahua genome480
    Narganes Storde, Yvonne386
    National Geographic magazine529
    Negril (Jamaica)286
    Nelson’s Dockyard (Antigua)529
    Neolocal residence87, 89
    Network, “Small World”334
    New Guinea77
    New Seville pottery259
    New South Archaeology, Inc.563
    North Atlantic climate system47–55
    North Atlantic Oscillation49
    North Bannerman Cave (Eleuthera, Bahamas)412
    Old Accompong Town (Jamaica)545, 548
    Old Harbour (Jamaica)251
    Oranje Bay (St. Eustatius)350
    Orient province (Cuba)68
    Orton, Clive302
    Osborne, F. J.254
    Osgood, Cornelius25
    Osteophytosis274
    Oxygen isotopes15, 50
    Padre Nuestro Cave (Dominican Republic)128, 133
    Palmeres Maroon site (Brazil)551
    Palmetto Junction site (Providenciales, TCI)383
    Palmetto Ware basket impressed269
    Parque Nacional los Haitises (Dominican Republic)487
    Parque Nacional Viñales (Cuba)487
    Patrilineal descent86
    Patterson, Thomas26
    Peanut (Maní; Arachis hypogaea)185, 237
    Pearls site (Grenada)187
    Pelican Cay (Middle Caicos)225, 265
    Pendant, axe-god163
    Pendant, bobito135
    Pendant, jaguar tooth164
    Pendant, peccary tooth164
    Pendant, Zenú514
    Petite Rivière site (La Dèsirade)209, 412
    Pico Duarte (Dominican Republic)7
    Pink Wall site (New Providence, Bahamas)266–267
    PK-11 site (French Guiana)400
    Plazuelas87
    Plymouth complex151
    Pointe de Grande Anse site (Guadeloupe)456
    Pointe des Chateaux site (Guadeloupe)209
    Ponce de León, Juan506
    Port-au-Prince (Haiti)11
    Port Morant style257
    Portugués River Dam project (Puerto Rico)563
    Postmortem mobility330
    Postprocessual perspective495, 497
    Poverty Point site (Louisiana, US)130
    Preacher’s Cave (Eleuthera, Bahamas)266, 271, 274
    Providenciales (TCI)383
    Puerto Hormiga site (Colombia)176
    Puerta Plata province (Dominican Republic)275, 398
    Puerto Real site (Haiti)275, 527
    Punta Bayahibe site (Dominican Republic)134
    Punta Gorda complex143
    Punta Ostiones site (Puerto Rico)87–88
    Quechua genome480
    Quinam site (Trinidad)147
    Radiocarbon dates, Jamaica255
    Radiocarbon dates, Saladoid37, 284
    Rampersad, S. R.256
    Rancheria86
    Ranking, settlement91, 371
    Rank-size distribution298, 300
    Reeder’s Pen (Jamaica)545, 547
    Retreat sites (Jamaica)258, 260
    Ribeiro, L. A.114
    Riley, Thomas131
    Río Grande de Arecibo (Puerto Rico)443
    Río Tanamá (Puerto Rico)443
    Robertson, J.254
    Rochefort, Charles de106
    Rosales engraved pottery162
    Rosman, Abraham315
    Royal Copenhagen530
    Royal Navy Hospital (Antigua)413
    Rubel, Paula G.315
    Rupert Bay (Dominica)104
    Sable Blanc site (French Guiana)400
    Sabloff, Jeremy22, 25
    SAC-2 site (French Guiana)400
    Saladero complex184
    Saladero site (Venezuela)179
    Saladoid veneer212
    Saltibus Point/Pointe de Caille site (Saint Lucia)211, 440, 456
    Salt River (St. Croix)87, 88, 99
    Samana Cay (Bahamas)275
    Sandy Ground site (St. Martin)128
    Sandy Hill site (Anguilla)209, 412
    Santa Clara, Cristóbal de508
    Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)180
    Santos, A. L.258
    Sapodilla (Manilkara zapota)157
    Saunders, M. A.52
    Saunders, Nicholas J.259
    Sawmill Sink blue hole (Abaco, Bahamas)133, 266
    Scanning electron microscope (SEM)516
    Schmidt, Max116
    Scmorl’s modes274
    Seaman’s Valley (Jamaica)545
    Seascape1, 9
    Semántica fugitiva564
    Settlement, Arawak in Florida288
    Settlement, Huecoid177
    Settlement, Lucayan88, 268
    Seville Heritage Park (Jamaica)259
    Seville plantation (Jamaica)531
    Shekerley Mountains maroon site (Antigua)551
    Shell Mound Archaic131
    Sherlock, Phillip M.250
    Shirley, Sir Anthony253
    Silberman, Neil A.561
    Sierra de Baharuco Mountains (Hispaniola)4
    Sierra Leone551
    Sierra Maestra Mountains (Cuba)7
    Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta site (Cuba)514
    Silver Sands site (Barbados)455
    Slavery, precolonial83
    Socialized landscape (socioscape)559
    Southeastern Archaeological Research, (SEARCH, Inc.)443–444
    Southern Caribbean Region3–4
    Spanish American War562
    Spring Bay site (Saba)411, 412
    St. Ann site (Jamaica)179
    St. Catherine’s site (Trinidad)151
    St. James Parish (Jamaica)257
    St. John site (Trinidad)127, 130
    St. Martin greenstone457
    St. Thomas Parish (Jamaica)257
    Stargate blue hole (Andros, Bahamas)274
    Steadman, David M.379
    Stewart Castle site (Jamaica)258, 260
    Stone daggers135
    Strait of Florida285
    Structure from Motion (SfM) technique570
    Suazan (Troumassoid) subseries205, 212
    Sugar Factory Pier site (St. Kitts)128
    Sullivan, Shaun D.25
    Supra-village constellation215
    Swanton, J. R.253
    Taíno rebellion of 151199
    Tannia/Yautia (Xanthosoma sagittifolium)156, 185
    Teeth, peccary164
    Theory of Island Biogeography3
    Theuvet, André104
    Three Dog site (San Salvador, Bahamas)267
    Tommaso Porcacchi map of 1576252
    Tooth loss and wear, human400, 424
    Torres-Etayo, Daniel39
    Trants site (Montserrat)87, 187
    Trelawney (Jamaica)257
    Tronolone, Carmine A.298
    Tuido Maroon site (Suriname)551
    Turtle, hawksbill burial456
    Tutishcaiño Culture (Bolivia)176
    Twenty Hill site (Antigua)128
    Tyruceyra (Guadeloupe)99
    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers443
    University of Calgary199
    University of the West Indies251, 258
    Unremembering558
    Valcárcel Rojas, Roberto516
    Valenciod4
    Vespucci, Amerigo275
    Viewscape9
    Vignier III site (Haiti)127
    Villa Clara province (Cuba)29, 235
    Villa de la Vega (Spanish Town, Jamaica)353–254
    Villafranco, Toribio de275
    Village, Arauquinoid151
    Village, Cayoid212
    Village, Lucayan268
    Village, Macorix79
    Village, Late Saladoid214
    Village, Post-Saladoid209
    Villón site (Puerto Rico)88
    Virilocal residence316
    Vivé site (Martinique)14
    Walker, R. S.114
    War club (boutou)101
    Watters, David R.534
    Weeden Island Period243
    Weiner, Annette B.320
    Wentworth site (Jamaica)255, 258
    West Bay site (Louisiana, US)130
    West Caicos Bank276
    Western Lithic Co-Tradition130, 234
    White, C. D.419
    Whitehead, Neil L.12
    Whitehead’s Bluff site (Anguilla)128
    Whitehouse, H.498
    Wilson, E. O.3
    X-ray florescence (XRF)516, 571
    X-ray emission (PIXE)516
    Yaguajay area (Cuba)514
    Yambou River (St. Vincent)106
    Yampee (Dioscorea trifida)185, 402
    Yellow Sapote (Pouteria campechianum)157, 289, 402
    Yucatan Strait285
    Zipf’s law298
    Zucchi, Alberta117
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