Tibes: People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos - Couverture souple

Livre 8 sur 27: Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory

The University Of Alabama Press

 
9780817355791: Tibes: People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos
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ISBN 10 : 0817355790 ISBN 13 : 9780817355791
Editeur : The University of Alabama Press, 2009

Synopsis

The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto Rico

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 peoples 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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À propos de l?auteur

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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Éditeur
The University of Alabama Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0817355790
ISBN 13 
9780817355791
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
348
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780817316860: Tibes: People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos

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ISBN 10 :  0817316868 ISBN 13 :  9780817316860
Editeur : The University of Alabama Press, 2009
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