Early ceramic population lifeways and adaptive strategies in the Caribbean : Symposium : 53rd Annual meeting : Papers

Papers from a symposium at the SAA meeting at Phoenix, Arizona in 1988. Here published under the auspices of the Centro de Investigaciones Indigenas de Puerto Rico. They are grouped as Regional Settlement Patterns and Subsistence Adaptations (7); Volcanism and Archaeology (1); Site Structure and Community Organization (2); Ceramic Style, Population Movement, and Interaction (3); and a concluding Commentary. Front Cover Copyright Centro des Investigaciones indigenas de Puerto Rico Forward Contents Contributors Part 1: Regional Settlement Patterns and Subsistence Adaptations A Comparison of Amerindian Insular Adaptive Strategies on Curacao Saladoid Remains and Adaptive Strategies in St. Croix, Virgin Islands The Dating of Excavation Levels Using Animal Remains: A Proposed Scheme for Indian Creek Saladoid and Ostionoid Subsistence Adaptations: Zooarchaeological Data from a Costal Occupation on Puerto Rico Prehistoric Ceramic Population Lifeways and Adaptive Strategies on Barbados, Lesser Antilles Transition from a Terrestrial to a Maritime Economy: A New View of the Crab/Shell Dichotomy Environmental Diversity and Maritime Adaptations in the Caribbean Area Part 2: Volcanism and Archaeology Volcanic Chronology and the Early Saladoid Occupation of Martinique Part 3: Site Structure and Community Organization The Internal Organization of a Pioneer Settlement in The Lesser Antilles: The Saladoid Golden Rock Site on St. Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles Site Structure, Demography, and Social Complexity in the Early Ceramic Age of the Caribbean Part 4: Ceramic Style, Population Movement, and Interaction The Zoned Incised Crosshatch (ZIC) Ware of Early Precolumbian Ceramic Age Sites in Puerto Rico and Vieques Island A Grammatical Analysis of Cedrosan Saladoid Vessel from Categories and Surface Decoration: Aesthetic and Technical Styles in Early Antillean Ceramics Peoples and Cultures of the Saladoid Frontier in the Greater Antilles Part 5: Commentary Discussion of Early Ceramic Population Lifeways and Adaptive Strategies in the Caribbean