Attractive ideas, desirable goods: Examining the late ceramic age relationships between greater and lesser antillean societies

Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-34

  Hofman, Corinne L ^a   Bright, Alistair J ^a   Hoogland, Menno L P ^a   Keegan, William F ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Interaction; Island Carib; Late Ceramic Age; Lesser Antilles; Taino

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CERAMICS;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; LESSER ANTILLES;

EID: 49549118690     PISSN: 15564894     EISSN: 15561828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15564890801984097     Document Type: Article

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