1st Edition
Bioarchaeology in the Caribbean
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Notes on Contributors
Introduction |
Bioarchaeology in the Antilles: Multidisciplinary perspectives to reconstruct people’s lifeways in the past
Darlene Weston and Yadira Chinique de Armas
Genomic Analyses |
Chapter 1 | Ancient DNA Analysis and its Application to pre-Contact Caribbean Archaeology
Kathrin Nägele and Maria Nieves-Colón
Chapter 2 | The Genetic Landscape of the Guadeloupe Archipelago
Fanny Mendisco, Patrice Courtaud, Thomas Romon, Marie-Hélène Pemonge, and Marie-France Deguilloux
Chapter 3 | When history meets genomics: Tracing the complex demographic histories of African-descendant communities in the Caribbean
Jada Benn-Torres and Hannes Schroeder
Deathways, Demography and Health |
Chapter 4 | A Synthesis of Bioarchaeological Research on Carriacou, Southern Grenadines
Jessica H. Stone, Scott M. Fitzpatrick, Scott Burnett, and John Krigbaum
Chapter 5 | Pre-Columbian Funerary Bioarchaeology of Puerto Rico and the La Gallera Site, Ceibe, PR.
Luz Veronica Muñoz Guevara
Chapter 6| Paleodemography and Health at Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic
Darlene Weston
Chapter 7 | Bioarchaeology of Slavery in the Insular Caribbean: Overview, Challenges, and Potential
Felicia J. Fricke and Jason E. Laffoon
Chapter 8 | The Caribbean Slave Cemeteries. Example of the French West Indies
Patrice Courtaud and Thomas Romon
Chapter 9 | Bioarchaeology of the Newton Plantation Burial Ground, Barbados: Slavery, Sugar, and the Embodiment of Violence
Kristrina A. Shuler
Diet and population mobility |
Chapter 10 | Infant and Children Feeding Practices in the Precolonial Caribbean: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
Yadira Chinique de Armas and Jason E. Laffoon
Chapter 11 | Isotopic Analysis of Indigenous Paleodiet and Paleomobility in the Western Caribbean: Enamel Strontium and Carbon Isotope Results from Cueva del Perico I, Cuba
Jason E. Laffoon and Yadira Chinique de Armas
Chapter 12 | Eating Local: Modeling Paleodiet in Later Ceramic Age Puerto Rico
William J. Pestle, Harper Dine, and Ali Pourmand
Chapter 13 | Investigations at the Royal Naval Hospital Cemetery (c. 1763–1834) in English Harbour, Antigua
Tamara L. Varney, Christopher K. Waters, and Reginald Murphy
Research ethics |
Chapter 14 | Ethical and sustainable: Towards an archaeology of decolonization in the neo-colonial world
Mirjana Roksandic
Index
Biography
Darlene Weston is an Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
Yadira Chinique de Armas is an Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology, University of Winnipeg, Canada.
