Islands at the Crossroads : Migration, Seafaring, and Interaction in the Caribbean.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Migration, seafaring, and cultural contact in the Caribbean / L. Antonio Curet and Mark W. Hauser -- 1. Irving Rouse's contribution to American archaeology : the case of migration / L. Antonio Curet -- 2. The ghost of Caliban : island archaelogy, insular archaeologists, and the Caribbean / Isabel C. Rivera-Collazo -- 3. Colonies without frontiers : inter-island trade in the eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Caribbean / Mark W. Hauser and Kenneth G. Kelly -- 4. Patterns of contact between the islands of the Caribbean and the surrounding mainland as a navigation problem / Richard T. Callaghan -- 5. Ties with the homelands : archipelagic interaction and the enduring role of the south and central American mainlands in the pre-Colombian lesser Antilles / Corinne L. Hofman [and others] -- 6. Contraband in the Convento? Material indications of trade-relations in the Spanish colonies / Ingrid Marion Newquist -- 7. Good as gold : the aesthetic brilliance of the Lucayans / Mary Jane Berman -- 8. The Magens house, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Danish West Indies : archaeology of an urban house compound and its relationship to local interactions and global trade / Douglas V. Armstrong and Christian Williamson -- 9. Close encounters of the Caribbean kind / Reniel Rodríguez Ramos -- 10. Competitive polities and territorial expansion in the Caribbean / Peter E. Siegel -- 11. Islands at the crossroads : archaeology of interaction in the Caribbean / Mark W. Hauser and L. Antonio Curet.

Islands at the Crossroads: Migration, Seafaring, and Interaction in the Caribbean (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory).

English.

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