Crossing the borders : new methods and techniques in the study of archaeological materials from the Caribbean / / edited by Corinne L. Hofman, Menno L.P. Hoogland, and Annelou L. van Gijn.

• Superior document: Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory
• Author: Society for American Archaeology. Meeting
• TeilnehmendeR: Hofman, Corinne Lisette, 1959-; Hoogland, Menno Lambertus Pieter, 1954-; Gijn, Annelou L. van, 1954-; Society for American Archaeology. Meeting; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.
• Physical Description: xii, 293 p. :; ill., maps.
• Notes: Outcome of a symposium held at the 71st Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Puerto Rico in April 2006.

Table of Contents

Crossing disciplinary boundaries and national borders : new methods and techniques in the study of archaeological materials from the Caribbean / Corinne L. Hofman, Menno L.P. Hoogland, and Annelou L. van Gijn -- In tuneful threefold : combining conventional archaeological methods, archaeometric techniques, and ethnoarchaeological research in the study of precolonial pottery of the Caribbean / Corinne L. Hofman ... [et al.] -- American gold and European brass : metal objects and indigenous values in the cemetery of El Chorro de Maita, Cuba / Jago Cooper, Marcos Martinon-Torres, and Roberto Valcarcel Rojas -- Chert sourcing in the northern Lesser Antilles : the use of geochemical techniques in discriminating chert materials / Sebastiaan Knippenberg and Johannes J.P. Zijlstra -- A new material to view the past : dental alginate molds of friable artifacts / Charlene Dixon Hutcheson -- Saladoid lapidary technology : new methods for investigating stone bead drilling techniques / Christy de Mille, Tamara Varney, and Michael Turney -- Lithic technology : a way to more complex diversity in Caribbean archaeology / Benoit Berard -- Tool use and technological choices : an integral approach toward functional analysis of Caribbean tool assemblages / Annelou L. van Gijn, Yvonne Lammers-Keijsers, and Iris Briels -- Understanding the function of coral tools from Anse a la Gourde : an experimental approach / Harold J. Kelly and Annelou L. van Gijn -- The significance of wear and residue studies : an example from Plum Piece, Saba / Channah J. Nieuwenhuis -- Starch residues on lithic artifacts from two contrasting contexts in northwestern Puerto Rico : Los Muertos Cave and Vega de Nelo Vargas farmstead / Jaime R. Pagan Jimenez and Jose R. Oliver -- The buren in precolonial Cuban archaeology : new information regarding the use of plants and ceramic griddles during the late Ceramic Age of eastern Cuba gathered through starch analysis / Roberto Rodriguez Suarez and Jaime R. Pagan Jimenez -- Caribbean paleoethnobotany : present status and new horizons (understanding the evolution of an indigenous ethnobotany) / Lee A. Newsom -- New evidence of two different migratory waves in the circum-Caribbean area during the pre-Columbian period from the analysis of dental morphological traits / Alfredo Coppa ... [et al.] -- Tracing human mobility with 87Sr/86Sr at Anse a la Gourde, Guadeloupe / Mathijs A. Booden ... [et al.] -- Epilogue: The correct answer requires the right question (and the technology to back it up) / William F. Keegan.