Bioarchaeology in the Caribbean

List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Bioarchaeology in the Antilles: Multidisciplinary perspectives to reconstruct people's lifeways in the past; Section I: Genomic Analyses -- Chapter 1 | Ancient DNA Analysis and its Application to pre-Contact Caribbean Archaeology; Chapter 2 | The Genetic Landscape of the Guadeloupe Archipelago; Chapter 3 | When history meets genomics: Tracing the complex demographic histories of African-descendant communities in the Caribbean; Section II: Deathways, Demography and Health Chapter 4 | A Synthesis of Bioarchaeological Research on Carriacou, Southern Grenadines; Chapter 5 | Pre-Columbian Funerary Bioarchaeology of Puerto Rico and the La Gallera Site, Ceibe, PR; Chapter 6| Paleodemography and Health at Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic; Chapter 7 | Bioarchaeology of Slavery in the Insular Caribbean: Overview, Challenges, and Potential; Chapter 8 | The Caribbean Slave Cemeteries. Example of the French West Indies; Chapter 9 | Bioarchaeology of the Newton Plantation Burial Ground, Barbados: Slavery, Sugar, and the Embodiment of Violence; Section III: Diet and population mobility - Chapter 10 | Infant and Children Feeding Practices in the Precolonial Caribbean: A Cross-Cultural Analysis; Chapter 11 | Isotopic Analysis of Indigenous Paleodiet and Paleomobility in the Western Caribbean: Enamel Strontium and Carbon Isotope Results from Cueva del Perico I, Cuba; Chapter 12 | Eating Local: Modeling Paleodiet in Later Ceramic Age Puerto Rico; Chapter 13 | Investigations at the Royal Naval Hospital Cemetery (c. 1763-1834) in English Harbour, Antigua; Section IV: Research ethics - Chapter 14 | Ethical and sustainable: Towards an archaeology of decolonization in the neo-colonial world; Index.

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Bioarchaeology;Caribbean bioarchaeology;genomic analyses;Bioarchaeology in the Antilles;Paleodemography