Anacaona’s Gift
Cotton and the woven arts of the 11th to 17th century Caribbean
Joanna Ostapkowicz | 2025
In the spring of 1497, the Hispaniolan cacica (chieftess) Anacaona presented Columbus’ brother, Adelantado (Governor) Bartolomé Colón, with a lavish assortment of Indigenous wealth, including both woven textiles and balls of spun cotton, “so large…
Arqueología histórica venezolana
Perspectivas actuales sobre el contacto, el colonialismo y la independencia
Edited by Konrad A. Antczak | 2024
Este volumen ofrece una visión panorámica de la arqueología histórica de Venezuela, siendo la primera vez que un estudio de esta índole está disponible tanto en inglés como en español. Reúne el trabajo de destacados…
Venezuelan Historical Archaeology
Current Perspectives on Contact, Colonialism, and Independence
Edited by Konrad A. Antczak | 2024
This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the historical archaeology of Venezuela, marking the first time such a detailed study is available in both English and Spanish. It compiles the work of leading Venezuelan archaeologists…
“Better Than We”
Landscapes and materialities of race, class, and gender in pre-emancipation Saba, Dutch Caribbean
Ryan Espersen | 2024
This study aims to understand the materiality of Saba’s ideological landscape during its pre-emancipation colonial period. This is accomplished by understanding the dialectics, or inseparable relationships, between Saba’s geography, locally-situated ideologies of class, race, and…
Caribbean Figure Pendants: Style and Subject Matter
Anthropomorphic figure pendants of the late Ceramic Age in the Greater Antilles
Vernon James Knight | 2020
This work synthesizes art-historical and anthropological methods in the analysis of a large corpus of indigenous figure pendants, commonly called “amulets,” from the Greater Antilles and Bahamas. Figure pendants, ubiquitous in Caribbean collections, are small…
Islands of Salt
Historical Archaeology of Seafarers and Things in the Venezuelan Caribbean, 1624–1880
Konrad A. Antczak | 2019
The early-modern Venezuelan Caribbean did not lure seafarers with the saccharine delights of cane sugar but with the preserving qualities of solar sea salt. In this book, the historical archaeological study of this salty commodity…
Pre-Colonial and Post-Contact Archaeology in Barbados
Past, Present, and Future Research Directions
Edited by Maaike S. de Waal, Niall Finneran, Matthew C. Reilly, Douglas V. Armstrong & Kevin Farmer | 2019
This volume provides one of the most comprehensive overviews of the archaeology of a single Caribbean island yet published. Drawing together scholars from the Caribbean, north America and Europe, all working from a range of…
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Anacaona’s Gift
Cotton and the woven arts of the 11th to 17th century Caribbean
Joanna Ostapkowicz | 2025
In the spring of 1497, the Hispaniolan cacica (chieftess) Anacaona presented Columbus’ brother, Adelantado (Governor) Bartolomé Colón, with a lavish assortment of Indigenous wealth, including both woven textiles and balls of spun cotton, “so large…
Arqueología histórica venezolana
Perspectivas actuales sobre el contacto, el colonialismo y la independencia
Edited by Konrad A. Antczak | 2024
Este volumen ofrece una visión panorámica de la arqueología histórica de Venezuela, siendo la primera vez que un estudio de esta índole está disponible tanto en inglés como en español. Reúne el trabajo de destacados…
Venezuelan Historical Archaeology
Current Perspectives on Contact, Colonialism, and Independence
Edited by Konrad A. Antczak | 2024
This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the historical archaeology of Venezuela, marking the first time such a detailed study is available in both English and Spanish. It compiles the work of leading Venezuelan archaeologists…
“Better Than We”
Landscapes and materialities of race, class, and gender in pre-emancipation Saba, Dutch Caribbean
Ryan Espersen | 2024
This study aims to understand the materiality of Saba’s ideological landscape during its pre-emancipation colonial period. This is accomplished by understanding the dialectics, or inseparable relationships, between Saba’s geography, locally-situated ideologies of class, race, and…
Caribbean Figure Pendants: Style and Subject Matter
Anthropomorphic figure pendants of the late Ceramic Age in the Greater Antilles
Vernon James Knight | 2020
This work synthesizes art-historical and anthropological methods in the analysis of a large corpus of indigenous figure pendants, commonly called “amulets,” from the Greater Antilles and Bahamas. Figure pendants, ubiquitous in Caribbean collections, are small…
Islands of Salt
Historical Archaeology of Seafarers and Things in the Venezuelan Caribbean, 1624–1880
Konrad A. Antczak | 2019
The early-modern Venezuelan Caribbean did not lure seafarers with the saccharine delights of cane sugar but with the preserving qualities of solar sea salt. In this book, the historical archaeological study of this salty commodity…
Pre-Colonial and Post-Contact Archaeology in Barbados
Past, Present, and Future Research Directions
Edited by Maaike S. de Waal, Niall Finneran, Matthew C. Reilly, Douglas V. Armstrong & Kevin Farmer | 2019
This volume provides one of the most comprehensive overviews of the archaeology of a single Caribbean island yet published. Drawing together scholars from the Caribbean, north America and Europe, all working from a range of…
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