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1005694
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b760064
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Newsom, Lee A.
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On land and sea : : Native American uses of biological resources in the West Indies /\ Lee A. Newsom and Elizabeth S. Wing.
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Tuscaloosa :: University of Alabama Press,, ©2004.
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1 online resource (xviii, 323 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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0817313141
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0817313141
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081731315X
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9780817313142
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9780817313159
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-301) and index.
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| Contents
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List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. An Introduction to Native American Uses of Biological Resources in the West Indies; 2. Environmental Setting; 3. Human Colonization of the West Indies; 4. Sources of Plant and Animal Samples and Methods Used to Study Them; 5. Southern Caribbean Region; 6. Lesser Antilles; 7. Greater Antilles and the Virgin Islands; 8. Bahamas Archipelago; 9. Toward a Synthetic Caribbean Paleoethnobiology; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; References Cited; Index.
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Provides a storehouse of information on the human ecology of the Caribbean and illuminates the processes of colonization of island systems anywhere in the world. During the vast stretches of early geologic time, the islands of the Caribbean archipelago separated from continental land masses, rose and sank many times, merged with and broke from other land masses, and then by the mid-Cenozoic period settled into the current pattern known today. By the time Native Americans arrived, the islands had developed complex, stable ecosystems. The actions these first colonists took on the landscapeâ??tim.
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Animal remains (Archaeology)-- West Indies.
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Ethnoecology-- West Indies.
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Human-animal relationships-- West Indies.
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Human-plant relationships-- West Indies.
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Indians of the West Indies-- Ethnobotany.
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Indians of the West Indies-- Ethnozoology.
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Plant remains (Archaeology)-- West Indies.
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Autochtones-- Écologie-- Antilles.
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Indiens d'Amérique-- Ethnobotanique-- Antilles.
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Indiens d'Amérique-- Ethnozoologie-- Antilles.
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Relations homme-animal-- Antilles.
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Relations homme-plante-- Antilles.
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Restes d'animaux (Archéologie)-- Antilles.
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Restes de plantes (Archéologie)-- Antilles.
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Animal remains (Archaeology)
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Antiquities
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Ethnoecology.
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Human-animal relationships
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Human-plant relationships
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Indians of the West Indies-- Ethnozoology
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NATURE-- Animals-- Wildlife.
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Plant remains (Archaeology)
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SCIENCE-- Microscopes Microscopy.
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West Indies, Antiquities.
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Antilles, Antiquités.
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West Indies
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| Dewey Classification
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578.6/3/089970729
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| LC Classification
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F1619.3.E85N48 2004eb
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LC 54640rvk
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LC 55640rvk
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RV 50495sdnb
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| Added Entry
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Wing, Elizabeth S.
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