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Volume 61 / Social Sciences

ANTHROPOLOGY: ARCHAEOLOGY

Caribbean Area

THE PAST FEW YEARS have witnessed a dramatic increase in publications regarding historical and colonial archeology. Recent books on the earliest Spanish town in the Americas (item #bi2004001787#) and Creole transformations (item #bi2004002809#), edited books on African sites (item #bi2004002810#) and the historical archeology of the colonial period (item #bi2004002892#), and a variety of journal articles contribute far more strongly to this chapter than in the past. This is a welcome sign given increasing local interest in historical identity and patrimony. There continues to be a steady stream of scholarship focused on the prehistoric cultures of the Caribbean as well. In this regard there is an increasing emphasis on human-induced (anthropogenic) changes to the precolombian landscape. Of special note is the publication of the UNESCO-sponsored General History of the Caribbean (item #bi2004002896#). The current volume, and others in the series, provide an important forum for scholars in the region. A variety of publications are also noted for lower Central America. However, the dissemination of information concerning the region continues to remain outside of the mainstream journals.

• Ensor, Bradley E. "Crow-Omaha marital alliances and social transformations: archaeological case studies on the Taino, Hohokam, and Archaic Lower Mississippi Valley," Univ. of Florida, 2003.
• Koski-Karell, Daniel Arthur, "Prehistoric northern Haiti: Settlement in diachronic ecological context," Catholic Univ., 2002.
• Lopiparo, Jeanne I. "Household ceramic production and the crafting of society in the Terminal Classic Ulloa Valley, Honduras," Univ. of California, Berkeley, 2002.
• Niemel, Karen S. "Social change and migration in the Rivas region, Pacific Nicaragua (1000 BC—AD 1522)," State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, 2003.
• Reid, Basil Anthony. "Developing GIS-based weights of evidence predictive models of pre-Columbian sites in Trinidad," Univ. of Florida, 2003.
• Rodríguez Alvarez, Angel. "Astronomía en la prehistoria de Puerto Rico: Caguana y Tibes, antiguos observatories precolombinos," Univ. de Valladolid, 2003.
• Varney, Tamara. "Reconstructing diet and life histories in colonial populations of the northeastern Caribbean using stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes," Univ. of Calgary, 2003.
• Wells, Eric Christian. "Artisans, chiefs, and feasts: Classic Period social dynamics at El Coyote, Honduras," Arizona State Univ., 2003.

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