Mary Jane Berman
Biographic Data
| ID | 118582 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Jane Berman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Berman |
| SIGNATURE | BERMAN M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Miami University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Investigating morphological and functional variability and frequency in Lucayan bipolar microliths from the central Bahamas
Lucayan charred wood selection patterns: A comparative study of variability in fragile island ecosystems of the central and northern Bahamas
While Lucayan exploitation of their marine environment is relatively well understand, less is known about terrestrial resource utilization, particularly of the floristic environment. Lucayans are the earliest permanent Indigenous inhabitants of the Bahama archipelago, which has suffered significant terrestrial habitat changes through time due to natural and anthropogenic factors. In this study we examined 878 wood charcoal specimens (21 taxa; 19 …
Crop Dispersal and Lucayan Tool Use: Investigating the Creation of Transported Landscapes in the Central Bahamas through Starch Grain, Phytolith, Macrobotanical, and Artifact Studies
Starch grain, phytolith, and macrobotanical evidence is expanding our understanding of the Lucayan transported landscape, plant food preparation, and cooking practices. Starch grain analyses reveal that the early colonists (a.d. 700/800–1100) of the central Bahamas brought a package of domesticated plants comprised of Calathea latifolia, Capsicum sp., Cucurbitaceae, Manihot esculenta, and Zea mays from their ancestral homelands, which they proces…
Colonial Encounters in Lucayan Contexts
During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the Bahama archipelago functioned as a colonial frontier impacted by Spanish policies and practices. European objects, which made their way there through numerous pathways, were easily incorporated into the indigenous (Lucayan) economic and cultural systems due to the precedents set by the Lucayan’s familiarity with non-local items and peoples through trade, exchange, and raids. Additionall…
Pre-Columbian jadeitite artifacts from San Salvador Island, Bahamas and comparison with jades of the eastern Caribbean and jadeitites of the greater Caribbean region
At the Crossroads: Starch Grain and Phytolith Analyses in Lucayan Prehistory
Starch and phytolith analyses of an assemblage of chert microliths from the Three Dog site, an early Lucayan settlement on San Salvador, Bahamas, yieldedZea mays, Capsicum, and possible manioc indicating that these domesticates were present by at least A.D. 800 or earlier in Cuba or Hispaniola and brought to the central Bahamas during its early peopling. The presence of corn at this site contradicts previously held ideas that it did not appear in…
Impressions of a Lost Technology: A Study of Lucayan-Taino Basketry
Impressions of a Lost Technology: A Study of Lucayan-Taíno Basketry
A sample of 260 basketry-impressed Palmettan Ostionoid sherds were analyzed from the Pigeon Creek Site, a 15th-century Lucayan-Taíno site located on San Salvador, Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The study is part of a larger project examining the geographic distribution of basketry technology and design from sites of varying time periods and islands throughout the Bahama archipelago and northern Greater Antilles. Three subclasses of basket weaves we…
Plants, People, and Culture in the Prehistoric Central Bahamas: A View from the Three Dog Site, an Early Lucayan Settlement on San Salvador Island, Bahamas
Paleoethnobotanical remains from the Three Dog site (SS-21), an early Lucayan site located on San Salvador, Bahamas, are presented and compared to data from other prehistoric Caribbean sites. Flotation, in situ, and screen recovery (1/16", 1.58 mm) revealed six taxa of fuelwood and charred Sapotaceae seed fragments. Preliminary SEM analysis of six chert microliths revealed possible evidence of the Caribbean aroid, Xanthosoma sp. (cocoyam, malanga…
Form and Function of Bipolar Lithic Artifacts from the Three Dog Site, San Salvador, Bahamas
The significance of a microlithic assemblage composed of imported, nonlocal materials is discussed for the Three Dog site, an early Lucayan site located on San Salvador, Bahamas. The Bahama archipelago is an interesting area in which to examine the organization of technology because the islands lack cherts and other suitable materials for chipped stone manufacture, suggesting that economizing strategies may have been practiced. The artifacts were…
Art and Archaeology of Pre-Columbian Cuba
Art and Archaeology of Pre-Columbian Cuba. Ramón Dacal Moure and Manuel Rivero de Lacalle. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. xxiv +134 pp., 17 color and 102 b/w photographs, bibliography. $35.00
The colonization of the Bahama archipelago: A reappraisal
A number of colonization models have been proposed to explain the prehistoric peopling of the Bahamas archipelago from the Greater Antilles. Each varies in respect to place of origin, timing of migration and settlement, routes of movement, intentionality, settlement permanency and causal agents. The paper summarizes the evidence for each of the models. A new model which suggests that late Ostionan Ostionoid people from northern Cuba colonized the…
Archeology: The People Who Discovered Columbus: The Prehistory of the Bahamas . William F. Keegan
New Light on Chaco Canyon
At the Crossroads: Starch Grain and Phytolith Analyses in Lucayan Prehistory
Starch and phytolith analyses of an assemblage of chert microliths from the Three Dog site, an early Lucayan settlement on San Salvador, Bahamas, yieldedZea mays, Capsicum, and possible manioc indicating that these domesticates were present by at least A.D. 800 or earlier in Cuba or Hispaniola and brought to the central Bahamas during its early peopling. The presence of corn at this site contradicts previously held ideas that it did not appear in…
The colonization of the Bahama archipelago: A reappraisal
A number of colonization models have been proposed to explain the prehistoric peopling of the Bahamas archipelago from the Greater Antilles. Each varies in respect to place of origin, timing of migration and settlement, routes of movement, intentionality, settlement permanency and causal agents. The paper summarizes the evidence for each of the models. A new model which suggests that late Ostionan Ostionoid people from northern Cuba colonized the…
Plants, People, and Culture in the Prehistoric Central Bahamas: A View from the Three Dog Site, an Early Lucayan Settlement on San Salvador Island, Bahamas
Paleoethnobotanical remains from the Three Dog site (SS-21), an early Lucayan site located on San Salvador, Bahamas, are presented and compared to data from other prehistoric Caribbean sites. Flotation, in situ, and screen recovery (1/16", 1.58 mm) revealed six taxa of fuelwood and charred Sapotaceae seed fragments. Preliminary SEM analysis of six chert microliths revealed possible evidence of the Caribbean aroid, Xanthosoma sp. (cocoyam, malanga…
Form and Function of Bipolar Lithic Artifacts from the Three Dog Site, San Salvador, Bahamas
The significance of a microlithic assemblage composed of imported, nonlocal materials is discussed for the Three Dog site, an early Lucayan site located on San Salvador, Bahamas. The Bahama archipelago is an interesting area in which to examine the organization of technology because the islands lack cherts and other suitable materials for chipped stone manufacture, suggesting that economizing strategies may have been practiced. The artifacts were…
Impressions of a Lost Technology: A Study of Lucayan-Taíno Basketry
A sample of 260 basketry-impressed Palmettan Ostionoid sherds were analyzed from the Pigeon Creek Site, a 15th-century Lucayan-Taíno site located on San Salvador, Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The study is part of a larger project examining the geographic distribution of basketry technology and design from sites of varying time periods and islands throughout the Bahama archipelago and northern Greater Antilles. Three subclasses of basket weaves we…
Crop Dispersal and Lucayan Tool Use: Investigating the Creation of Transported Landscapes in the Central Bahamas through Starch Grain, Phytolith, Macrobotanical, and Artifact Studies
Starch grain, phytolith, and macrobotanical evidence is expanding our understanding of the Lucayan transported landscape, plant food preparation, and cooking practices. Starch grain analyses reveal that the early colonists (a.d. 700/800–1100) of the central Bahamas brought a package of domesticated plants comprised of Calathea latifolia, Capsicum sp., Cucurbitaceae, Manihot esculenta, and Zea mays from their ancestral homelands, which they proces…
Pre-Columbian jadeitite artifacts from San Salvador Island, Bahamas and comparison with jades of the eastern Caribbean and jadeitites of the greater Caribbean region
Impressions of a Lost Technology: A Study of Lucayan-Taino Basketry
New Light on Chaco Canyon
Archeology: The People Who Discovered Columbus: The Prehistory of the Bahamas . William F. Keegan
The colonization of the Bahama archipelago: A reappraisal
A number of colonization models have been proposed to explain the prehistoric peopling of the Bahamas archipelago from the Greater Antilles. Each varies in respect to place of origin, timing of migration and settlement, routes of movement, intentionality, settlement permanency and causal agents. The paper summarizes the evidence for each of the models. A new model which suggests that late Ostionan Ostionoid people from northern Cuba colonized the…
Form and Function of Bipolar Lithic Artifacts from the Three Dog Site, San Salvador, Bahamas
The significance of a microlithic assemblage composed of imported, nonlocal materials is discussed for the Three Dog site, an early Lucayan site located on San Salvador, Bahamas. The Bahama archipelago is an interesting area in which to examine the organization of technology because the islands lack cherts and other suitable materials for chipped stone manufacture, suggesting that economizing strategies may have been practiced. The artifacts were…
Art and Archaeology of Pre-Columbian Cuba
Art and Archaeology of Pre-Columbian Cuba. Ramón Dacal Moure and Manuel Rivero de Lacalle. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. xxiv +134 pp., 17 color and 102 b/w photographs, bibliography. $35.00
Impressions of a Lost Technology: A Study of Lucayan-Taino Basketry
Impressions of a Lost Technology: A Study of Lucayan-Taíno Basketry
A sample of 260 basketry-impressed Palmettan Ostionoid sherds were analyzed from the Pigeon Creek Site, a 15th-century Lucayan-Taíno site located on San Salvador, Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The study is part of a larger project examining the geographic distribution of basketry technology and design from sites of varying time periods and islands throughout the Bahama archipelago and northern Greater Antilles. Three subclasses of basket weaves we…
Plants, People, and Culture in the Prehistoric Central Bahamas: A View from the Three Dog Site, an Early Lucayan Settlement on San Salvador Island, Bahamas
Paleoethnobotanical remains from the Three Dog site (SS-21), an early Lucayan site located on San Salvador, Bahamas, are presented and compared to data from other prehistoric Caribbean sites. Flotation, in situ, and screen recovery (1/16", 1.58 mm) revealed six taxa of fuelwood and charred Sapotaceae seed fragments. Preliminary SEM analysis of six chert microliths revealed possible evidence of the Caribbean aroid, Xanthosoma sp. (cocoyam, malanga…
At the Crossroads: Starch Grain and Phytolith Analyses in Lucayan Prehistory
Starch and phytolith analyses of an assemblage of chert microliths from the Three Dog site, an early Lucayan settlement on San Salvador, Bahamas, yieldedZea mays, Capsicum, and possible manioc indicating that these domesticates were present by at least A.D. 800 or earlier in Cuba or Hispaniola and brought to the central Bahamas during its early peopling. The presence of corn at this site contradicts previously held ideas that it did not appear in…
Colonial Encounters in Lucayan Contexts
During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the Bahama archipelago functioned as a colonial frontier impacted by Spanish policies and practices. European objects, which made their way there through numerous pathways, were easily incorporated into the indigenous (Lucayan) economic and cultural systems due to the precedents set by the Lucayan’s familiarity with non-local items and peoples through trade, exchange, and raids. Additionall…
Pre-Columbian jadeitite artifacts from San Salvador Island, Bahamas and comparison with jades of the eastern Caribbean and jadeitites of the greater Caribbean region
Crop Dispersal and Lucayan Tool Use: Investigating the Creation of Transported Landscapes in the Central Bahamas through Starch Grain, Phytolith, Macrobotanical, and Artifact Studies
Starch grain, phytolith, and macrobotanical evidence is expanding our understanding of the Lucayan transported landscape, plant food preparation, and cooking practices. Starch grain analyses reveal that the early colonists (a.d. 700/800–1100) of the central Bahamas brought a package of domesticated plants comprised of Calathea latifolia, Capsicum sp., Cucurbitaceae, Manihot esculenta, and Zea mays from their ancestral homelands, which they proces…
Investigating morphological and functional variability and frequency in Lucayan bipolar microliths from the central Bahamas
Lucayan charred wood selection patterns: A comparative study of variability in fragile island ecosystems of the central and northern Bahamas
While Lucayan exploitation of their marine environment is relatively well understand, less is known about terrestrial resource utilization, particularly of the floristic environment. Lucayans are the earliest permanent Indigenous inhabitants of the Bahama archipelago, which has suffered significant terrestrial habitat changes through time due to natural and anthropogenic factors. In this study we examined 878 wood charcoal specimens (21 taxa; 19 …
Archaeology (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (7 works) · Geology (6 works) · Archipelago (5 works) · Biology (5 works) · Prehistory (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Geology (3 works)