Island Historical Ecology addresses Caribbean island ecologies from the perspective of social and cultural intervention, focusing on selected islands between Venezuela and Puerto Rico. This region represents the locus of the West Indies, the site of the longest continuous human occupation, spanning approximately 8,000 years. Environmental coring was carried out in carefully selected wetlands with the goal of collecting preserved microfossils, allowing for the reconstruction of pre-colonial and colonial landscapes. This volume goes on to compare these findings with well-documented patterns in the Mediterranean and Pacific islands, placing the Caribbean into a larger context of island historical ecology.
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It is hard to overstate the importance of successfully accomplishing a project of this magnitude. There have been limited coring projects on individual islands, but nothing on a regional scale like this. As such, Island Historical Ecology offers our best evidence yet of human-environmental interactions in the prehistoric (and historic) Lesser Antilles. We will all be referencing this volume for many decades to come. JRAI (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)
This timely publication, is probably the first to assiduously apply the science and rigour of historical Ecology to multiple small islands in the Southern and Eastern Caribbean. European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
This highly important and most interesting book represents a valuable source of primary data on the historical ecology of the West Indies. Andrzej Antczak, Leiden University
I am much impressed with the ground-breaking work involved in this project, and with its presentation. I believe it is a very valuable and novel addition to the scientific literature on the Lesser Antilles. Peter G. Roe, University of Delaware
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| Foreword: A Prelude to Island Historical Ecology |
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Part I Method, Theory, and Applications of Island Historical Ecology |
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Chapter 1 Migrations, Colonization Processes, and Landscape Learning |
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Chapter 2 Unique Challenges in Archipelagoes: Examples from the Mediterranean and Pacific Islands |
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Chapter 3 A Cultural Framework for Caribbean Island Historical Ecology Across the Lesser Antilles |
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Chapter 4 Methods for Addressing Island Historical Ecology |
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Part III Synthesis and Future Directions in Island Historical Ecology |
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Chapter 14 Assessing Colonization, Landscape Learning, and Socionatural Changes in the Caribbean |
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Chapter 15 Insights from the Outside: Some Wider Perspectives and Future Directions in Caribbean Island Historical Ecology |
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Peter E. Siegel is Professor of Anthropology at Montclair State University. His articles have appeared in Current Anthropology, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, and Journal of Field Archaeology, among others. Siegels research has been supported by the Heinz Family Foundation for Latin American Archaeology, National Geographic Society, National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe.
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