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List of Figures; List of Tables; 1. CARIBBEAN KALEIDOSCOPE; The Caribbean Islands; Different Ways of Seeing; Far Tortuga; The Name Game; Ciboney and Guanahatebey; Indios, Arawak, Taino, Lucayan, Igneri; Carib and Kalinago; Changing Frames of Reference; Underlying Structure; 2. THE EARLIEST INHABITANTS; FLAKED-STONE TOOL COMPLEXES; Origins; Cultural Characteristics; Environmental Considerations; Barrera-Mordan Site, Dominican Republic (representing circa 4000 BC); Lithic Age Assemblages; GROUND-STONE TOOL COMPLEXES; Banwari Trace Site, Trinidad (circa 5000 B.C); Origins; Climate Change and Anthropogenic Landscapes; Archaic Age Assemblages in the Greater Antilles; Archaic Age Pottery; European and Archaic Age Encounters; Conclusions; 3. THE EARLY CERAMIC AGE; From Forest to Sea; Creating Identities; Trants Site, Montserrat (circa 400 BC to AD 500); Hacienda Grande Site, Puerto Rico (circa AD 150 to 500); Redefining the Early Ceramic Age; Morel Site, Guadeloupe (circa 400 BC to AD 1400); Scale and Perspective; Settlement Patterns; Golden Rock Site, St. Eustatius (circa AD 600 to 850); Subsistence Economy; Material Culture; Sociopolitical Organization; Cosmology; Conclusions; 4. POST-SALADOID PUERTO RICO; Dispersion (circa AD 500 to 900); Crab/Shell Dichotomy; A Plethora of Pottery Styles; Population Growth and Settlement Patterns; Rio Tanama 2 Site (cal AD 980 to 1490); Egalitarian, Hierarchical, or Heterarchical?; Settlement Landscape and Community Structure (AD 950 and Beyond); Rio Tanama 1 site (circa cal AD 980 to 1490); Formalization of Exchange; Plaza de Estrella, Tibes Ceremonial Center; Taino in Puerto Rico?; Late Pottery Styles (Figure 4.6); Demography; Stone-lined Courts and Plazas; Cacicazgos; Conclusions; 5. MEILLACOID AND CHICOID WORLDS; Foragers and Farmers; Pottery Styles in Hispaniola; An Island Divided; El Cabo Site, Southeastern Dominican Republic (circa AD 600 to 1500); Northwestern Dominican Republic; Meillacoid Revolution; El Flaco Site, Northwestern Dominican Republic (circa AD 900 to 1500); Ile a Rat Site, Haiti (circa AD 900 to 1500); Social Transformations; Cacicazgos; En Bas Saline, Haiti (circa AD 1492); Sweetness and Power; Chicoid Expansion; Conclusions; 7. CUBA, THE BAHAMA ARCHIPELAGO, AND JAMAICA; CUBA; Preagroalfarera (Archaic Age); Protoagricola (Incipient Agriculture); Agricultores Ceramistas (Ceramic Age); Regional Integration; El Chorro de Maita, Banes (circa AD 1200 to post AD 1600); Precious Metals; Chicoid Influences; Los Buchillones Site (circa AD 1220 to 1640); Conclusions; BAHAMA ARCHIPELAGO; Exploration and Colonization; Coralie Site, Grand Turk, Turks & Caicos Islands (circa AD 700 to 1100); Small Islands; Governors Beach Site, Grand Turk, Turks & Caicos Islands (circa AD 1100 to 1300); Permanent Settlement; Late Ceramic Age; MC-6, Middle Caicos, Turks & Caicos Islands (circa AD 1400 to 1600); The (Not So) Empty Islands; JAMAICA; Pottery Series as Distinct Cultures; Paradise Park Sites, Westmoreland (circa AD 850 and AD 1430); Conclusions; 8. LESSER ANTILLEAN NETWORKS; The First Islanders; Late Archaic Age; Archaic Age Summary; Neolithization of the Lesser Antilles; Post-Saladoid Developments; Anse a la Gourde Site, Guadeloupe (circa AD 450 to 1350); Windward Islands (Southern Lesser Antilles); Giraudy Site, Saint Lucia (circa AD 900 to 1500); Social and Political Networks; Kelbey’s Ridge 2 Site, Saba (circa AD 1350); Demographic Collapse after AD 1300; Morne Cybele and Morne Souffler Sites, La Desirade (circa AD 1440 to 1460); Kalinago Archaeology; Argyle Site, St. Vincent; Discussion; 8. CARIBBEAN; Columbus and Cannibals; Cannibal Raids or Indigenous Trade?; Colonial Emergence; Language; Archaeological Research; Indigenous Settlements; Subsistence; Social Organization; Cacicazgos (Chiefdoms); Mythology and Religion; Demography; Early Colonial European Chroniclers and the French Missionaries; Kaleidoscope: The Final Turn; REFERENCES CITED

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