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This volume reports the results of techniques for understanding of human adaptive strategies during 1.300 years of site occupation. These investigations lay a solid foundation for future studies of prehistoric Caribbean human populations
List of contents
INTRODUCTION Chapter One BACKGROUND OF RESEARCH AND SAMPLE COLLECTION AT THE TUTU SITE Chapter Two ANALYSIS OF CHARRED BOTANICAL REMAINS FROM THE TUTU SITE Chapter Three PHYTOLITHIC REMAINS FROM THE TUTU SITE Chapter Four FAUNAL REMAINS FROM THE TUTU SITE Chapter Five TUTU POTTERY AND CERAMIC CHRONOLOGY Chapter Six INVESTIGATION OF CERAMIC VARIABILITY AT THE TUTU SITE THROUGH ACID-EXTRACTION ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS Chapter Seven BIOLOGICAL ADAPTATION IN THE PREHISTORIC CARIBBEAN: OSTEOLOGY AND BIOARCHAEOLOGY OF THE TUTU SITE Chapter Eight THE TUTU TEETH: ASSESSING PREHISTORIC HEALTH AND LIFEWAY FROM ST THOMAS Chapter Nine TRACE ELEMENT ANALYSES OF SKELETAL REMAINS AND ASSOCIATED SOILS FROM THE TUTU SITE Chapter Ten BONE ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS AND PREHISTORIC DIET AT THE TUTU SITE Chapter Eleven FLAKED STONE ARTIFACTS FROM THE TUTU SITE Chapter Twelve POST HOLE PATTERNS: STRUCTURES, CHRONOLOGY AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AT THE TUTU SITE Chapter Thirteen SITE ANALYSIS
About the author
At the time of the Tutu investigations, Elizabeth Righter was Senior Archaeologist in the Division for Archaeology and Historic Preservation (DAHP) of the Department of Planning and Natural Resources (DPNR) of the Virgin Islands Government. After three years as a consultant to that office, also known as the State Office of Historic Preservation or SHPO, Righter now is writing up the results of her many years of research in the Caribbean Islands and is President of her own archaeological consulting firm in Bradenton, Florida.
Summary
This volume reports the results of techniques for understanding of human adaptive strategies during 1.300 years of site occupation. These investigations lay a solid foundation for future studies of prehistoric Caribbean human populations
