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Trinidad, Tobago, and the lower Orinoco interaction sphere : an archaeological/ethnohistorical study / Arie Boomert.

Title
Trinidad, Tobago, and the lower Orinoco interaction sphere : an archaeological/ethnohistorical study / Arie Boomert.
Author
Boomert, Arie, 1946-
Publication
Alkmaar : Cairi Publications, c2000.

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Description
viii, 578 p. : ill., maps; 30 cm.
Subject
  • Indians of the West Indies > Trinidad and Tobago > Antiquities
  • Indians of the West Indies > Trinidad and Tobago > History
  • Ethnohistory > Trinidad and Tobago
  • Indians of South America > Venezuela > Orinoco River Delta > Antiquities
  • Indians of South America > Venezuela > Orinoco River Delta > History
  • Trinidad and Tobago > Antiquities
  • Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela) > Antiquities
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Abstract in Dutch.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The physical and biological environment -- The arrival of man -- Archaic cultural patterns and subsistence strategies -- The first horticulturalists -- The early ceramic sequence of Trinidad and Tobago -- Towards a Saladoid/Barrancoid interaction sphere -- Saladoid/Barrancoid settlement forms and housing -- Saladoid/Barrancoid subsistence modes and food processing -- Saladoid/Barrancoid population, sociopolitical organization and life cycle -- Saladoid/Barrancoid interaction : war and exchange -- Early ceramic cosmology and ritual.
ISBN
9090136320
LCCN
^^^00432066^
OCLC
  • 51505534
  • SCSB-12609878
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library