Tibes: People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series) - Softcover

Buch 8 von 27: Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory

The University Of Alabama Press

 
9780817355791: Tibes: People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0817355790 ISBN 13: 9780817355791
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and on the other two sides by hills, this approximately 10.5 acre site remains as fertile and productive today as when first occupied over 2,000 years ago. Such a rich region would have been a choice location for native people because of the diversity in all resources, from land, air, and sea - and also symbolically crucial as a liminal space within the landscape. It may have been regarded as a space charged with numen or cosmic energy where different parts of the cosmos (natural vs. supernatural, or world of the living vs. world of the dead) overlap. Archaeological evidence reveals a long occupation, about 1,000 years, possibly followed by an extensive period of sporadic ceremonial use after the site itself was practically abandoned. In this volume, nineteen Caribbeanists, across a wide academic spectrum, examine the geophysical, paleoethnobotanical, faunal, lithics, base rock, osteology, bone chemistry and nutrition, social landscape, and ceremonial constructs employed at Tibes. These scholars provide a concise, well-presented, comprehensive analysis of the evidence for local level changes in household economy, internal organization, accessibility to economic, religious, and symbolic resources related to the development and internal operation of socially stratified societies in the Caribbean.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

L. Antonio Curet is Assistant Curator in the Department of Anthropology at The Field Museum, Chicago, and author of Caribbean Paleodemography: Population, Culture History, and Sociopolitical Processes in Ancient Puerto Rico.

Lisa M. Stringer is Associate in the Department of Anthropology at The Field Museum.

 

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Verlag
The University of Alabama Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0817355790
ISBN 13 
9780817355791
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
329
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4831 GR
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