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ISBN: | 9780817383442 0817383441 081731461X 081735185X 9780817351854 9780817314613
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-268) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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Summary: | According to the European chronicles, at the time of contact, the Greater Antilles were inhabited by the Tainos or Arawak Indians, who were organized in hierarchical societies. Since its inception Carribean archaeology has used population as an important variable in explaining many social, political, and economic processes such as migration, changes in subsistence systems, and the development of institutionalized social stratification. In Caribbean Paleodemography, L. Antonio Curet argues that population has been used casually by Caribbean archaeologists and proposes more rigorous and promisin.
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Other form: | Print version: Curet, L. Antonio. Caribbean paleodemography : population, culture history, and sociopolitical processes in ancient Puerto Rico. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2005] xiv, 271 pages ; 25 cm. 9780817351854
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