Illustrations
Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section 1. Assessment and Excavation of Taíno Sites
1. The Development of Jamaican Prehistory
2. The Taíno Settlement of the Kingston Area
3. The Pre-Columbian Site of Chancery Hall, St Andrew
4. Excavations at Green Castle, St Mary
5. The Impact of
Land-Based Development on Taíno Archaeology in Jamaica
Section 2. Taíno Exploitation of Natural Resources
6. Notes on the Natural History of Jamaica
7. The Exploitation and Transformation of Jamaica’s Natural Vegetation
8. Early Arawak
Subsistence Strategies: The Rodney’s House Site of Jamaica
Section 3. Analysis of Taíno Archaeological Data
9. Petrography and Source of Some Arawak Rock Artefacts from Jamaica
10. Jamaican Taíno Pottery
11. Jamaican Redware
12. Taíno Ceramics
from Post-Contact Jamaica
Section 4. Taíno Art Forms
13. The Petroglyphs of Jamaica
14. Zemís, Trees
and Symbolic Landscapes: Three Taíno Carvings from Jamaica
References
Contributors