Stage of encounters: Migration, mobility and interaction in the pre-colonial and early colonial Caribbean

World Archaeology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 590-609

  Hofman, Corinne L ^a   Mol, Angus A A ^a   Hoogland, Menno L P ^a   Rojas, Roberto Valcárcel ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Cuban Ministry of Science s   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Colonial encounters; Interaction; Mobility; Multi scalar networks

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MIGRATION; MOBILITY; SOCIAL NETWORK;

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

EID: 84903354844     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2014.925820     Document Type: Article

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