Art and archaeology of pre-Columbian Cuba /

The first report of archaeological findings in Cuba since 1959 and the first synthesis of Cuban prehistoric art and archaeology since Mark Harrington's Cuba Before Columbus, published in 1921. More than one hundred photographs reveal the superb artistry of the Pre-Columbian Ciboney and Taino cu...

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Main Authors: Dacal Moure, Ramón, Rivero de la Calle, Manuel (Author)
Other Authors: Sandweiss, Daniel H. (translator, editor.), Watters, David R. (Editor), Heyerdahl, Thor (writer of foreword.), Olsen, Kristine Edle (Photographer)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.
Series:Pitt Latin American series.
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505 0 |a Intro -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The Setting -- The Antilles, the Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico -- The Antilles and Neighboring Regions at the Beginning of the Holocene Epoch -- Dominant Marine Currents and Winds in the Region -- Terminology of the Aboriginal Cultures of Cuba -- Some Important Sites in the Initial Settlement of the Area -- The Ciboney -- The Taino -- Possible Routes of Migration to Cuba 
505 8 |a Aboriginal Cuba in the Fifteenth Century and the First European Voyages Some Important Archaeological Discoveries in Cuba, -- Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- The Art -- Ciboney Art and Thought -- Balls and Daggers -- Stone ""Hearts -- Ornaments -- Pictographs -- Taino Art and Thought -- Idols -- Idolillos -- Idols of Coralline Rock -- Wooden Idols -- Figurines -- Caretonas -- Axes -- Vomitive Spatulas -- Duhos -- Petroglyphs -- Pictographs -- Ceramic Vessels -- Native Fauna on Pottery -- Ornaments -- Epilogue -- Plates -- Bibliography 
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