Bioarchaeology in the Caribbean

Auteur

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 in Bioanthropology at the Department of Anthropology, University of Winnipeg, Canada.

Résumé
Bioarchaeology in the Caribbean assembles leading and emerging scholars in Caribbean bioarchaeology, offering an overview of current research in genomic analyses, deathways, demography and health, diet and population mobility, and research ethics.

Contenu

List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Bioarchaeology in the Antilles: Multidisciplinary perspectives to reconstruct people's lifeways in the past; Section I: Genomic Analyses -- Chapter 1 | Ancient DNA Analysis and its Application to pre-Contact Caribbean Archaeology; Chapter 2 | The Genetic Landscape of the Guadeloupe Archipelago; Chapter 3 | When history meets genomics: Tracing the complex demographic histories of African-descendant communities in the Caribbean; Section II: Deathways, Demography and Health Chapter 4 | A Synthesis of Bioarchaeological Research on Carriacou, Southern Grenadines; Chapter 5 | Pre-Columbian Funerary Bioarchaeology of Puerto Rico and the La Gallera Site, Ceibe, PR; Chapter 6| Paleodemography and Health at Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic; Chapter 7 | Bioarchaeology of Slavery in the Insular Caribbean: Overview, Challenges, and Potential; Chapter 8 | The Caribbean Slave Cemeteries. Example of the French West Indies; Chapter 9 | Bioarchaeology of the Newton Plantation Burial Ground, Barbados: Slavery, Sugar, and the Embodiment of Violence; Section III: Diet and population mobility Chapter 10 | Infant and Children Feeding Practices in the Precolonial Caribbean: A Cross-Cultural Analysis; 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; Chapter 12 | Eating Local: Modeling Paleodiet in Later Ceramic Age Puerto Rico; Chapter 13 | Investigations at the Royal Naval Hospital Cemetery (c. 17631834) in English Harbour, Antigua; Section IV: Research ethics Chapter 14 | Ethical and sustainable: Towards an archaeology of decolonization in the neo-colonial world; Index.