Excavations in Jamaica
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2562495 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marian Dewolf (University of New Haven, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1953 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 230-238 |
| Publication date | 1953-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/277038 |
| OpenAlex | W2314217699 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 6 |
The purpose of this paper is to report the results of excavations conducted in 1933, as yet unreported, and to correlate the findings with present knowledge of Jamaican and other West Indian prehistory. Descriptions of the sites and specimens may be of value to archaeologists in this area.Since 1933 great strides have been made in archaeological knowledge of the West Indies. Irving Rouse has correlated known cultures in most of the Greater Antilles and in some of the Lesser Antilles. He has established seven arbitrary time periods, I, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, and IVb, for the area (Rouse, 1939, 1941, 1948, 1951, 1952) on the basis of stratigraphy, sedation of modes, establishment of style sequences, and cross-dating of trade objects. During these periods four cultures existed. The period I culture is preceramic and is associated with the Ciboney Indians who may have come from North America. The first ceramic culture, Igneri, is associated with the Arawak Indians, who pushed north and east from the Orinoco Valley in period II. It lacks the ceremonial complex which distinguishes the two later ceramic cultures, sub-Taino and Taino, which developed in the Greater Antilles during periods III and IV, the former as a simpler variant of the latter
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Ethnology · Excavation · Geography · Period (music) · Prehistory · Style (visual arts) · West indies · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Geology · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Paleontology · Stratigraphy
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1953 - 2009 (57) |
| Highly cited | No |