Island lives : historical archaeologies of the Caribbean / edited by Paul Farnsworth.

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A venue for autonomy : archaeology of a changing cultural landscape, the East End community, St. John, Virgin Islands / Douglas Armstrong -- "Getting the essence of it" : Galways Plantation, Montserrat, West Indies / Lydia M. Pulsipher and Conrad "Mac" Goodwin -- Creolization in Seventeenth-century Barbados : two case studies / Thomas C. Loftfield -- "Negroe houses built of stone besides others watl'd + plaistered" : the creation of a Bahamian tradition / Paul Farnsworth -- Methodist intentions and African sensibilities : the victory of African consumerism over planter paternalism at a Bahamian plantation / Laurie A. Wilkie.

Historical archaeology in the colonial Spanish Caribbean / Charles R. Ewen -- Historical archaeology in the French West Indies : recent research in Guadeloupe / Andre Delpuech -- Historical archaeology in the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba / Jay B. Haviser -- Historical archaeology in the British Caribbean / David R. Watters -- Time lines : changing settlement patterns on St. Eustatius / Norman F. Barka -- A venue for autonomy : archaeology of a changing cultural landscape, the East End community, St. John, Virgin Islands / Douglas Armstrong -- "Getting the essence of it" : Galways Plantation, Montserrat, West Indies / Lydia M. Pulsipher and Conrad "Mac" Goodwin -- Creolization in Seventeenth-century Barbados : two case studies / Thomas C. Loftfield -- "Negroe houses built of stone besides others watl'd + plaistered" : the creation of a Bahamian tradition / Paul Farnsworth -- Methodist intentions and African sensibilities : the victory of African consumerism over planter paternalism at a Bahamian plantation / Laurie A. Wilkie.

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Twenty-five contributors offer scholarly writings on subjects ranging from the ritual function of public space at the Olmec site and the gardens of the Great Goddess at Teotihuacan to the understanding of Jupiter in Maya astronomy and the meaning of the water throne of Quirigua Zoomorph P. The workshops on Maya history and writing that Schele conducted in Guatemala and Mexico for the highland people, modern descendants of the Mayan civilization, are thoroughly addressed as is the phenomenon termed "Maya mania"the explosive growth of interest in Maya epigraphy, iconography, astronomy.

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