The status of paleoethnobiological research on Puerto Rico and adjacent Islands

Ancient Borinquen: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 122-184

  De France, Susan D ^a   Newsom, Lee A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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1. The results of a faunal analysis by Narganes Storde (2001) of material from four cave sites in the Central Mountains of Puerto Rico near Caguana, Utuado, were unavailable to us until this chapter was in revision. These data are not included in the summary presented here. However, the fauna are consistent with the trends in animal use from other areas of the island. The most distinctive aspects of the faunal assemblages are the presence of a large number of snakes, which may not represent food remains, and the consumption of large numbers of the terrestrial crab (Epilobocera sinuatifrons). Despite their inland location, some marine foodstuffs, including several species of mollusks, were transported to the cave sites.