Contents
List of Illistrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Migration, Seafaring, and Cultural Contact in the Caribbean
I. Peoples and Boundaries:Systematics and the Practiceof Caribbean Archaeology
1. Irving Rouse's Contribution to American Archaeology: The Case of Migration
2. The Ghost of Caliban: Island Archaeology, Insular Archaeologists, and the Caribbean
3. Colonies without Frontiers: Inter-island Trade in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Caribbean
II. Tracing Exchange: Intensitiesand Scales of Interaction
4. Patterns of Contact between the Islands of the Caribbean and the Surrounding Mainland as a Navigation Problem
5. Ties with the Homelands: Archipelagic Interaction and the Enduring Role ofthe South and Central American Mainlands in the Pre- Columbian Lesser Antilles
6. Contraband in the Convento? : Material Indications of Trade Relations in the Spanish Colonies
7. Good as Gold: The Aesthetic Brilliance of the Lucayans
III. Redefining Boundaries through Social Interaction
8. The Magens House, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Danish West Indies: Archaeology of an Urban House Compound and Its Relationship to Local Interactions and Global Trade
9. Close Encounters of the Caribbean Kind
10. Competitive Polities and Territorial Expansion in the Caribbean
11. Islands at the Crossroads: Archaeology of Interaction in the Caribbean
References
List of Contributors
Index