DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.014
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84945578108
论文题名: Paleoenvironmental evidence for first human colonization of the eastern Caribbean
作者: Siegel P.E. ; Jones J.G. ; Pearsall D.M. ; Dunning N.P. ; Farrell P. ; Duncan N.A. ; Curtis J.H. ; Singh S.K.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2015
卷: 129 起始页码: 275
结束页码: 295
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Caribbean paleoenvironments
; Human colonization
; Island historical ecology
; Modified landscapes
Scopus关键词: Employment
; Land use
; Landforms
; Sea level
; Archaeological site
; Coastal locations
; Historical ecology
; Human colonization
; Indigenous people
; Modified landscapes
; Paleoenvironmental reconstruction
; Paleoenvironments
; Ecology
; colonization
; dating method
; Guadalupian
; historical ecology
; human activity
; human settlement
; indigenous population
; occupation
; paleoenvironment
; reconstruction
; sea level change
; taphonomy
; Lesser Antilles
英文摘要: Identifying and dating first human colonization of new places is challenging, especially when group sizes were small and material traces of their occupations were ephemeral. Generating reliable reconstructions of human colonization patterns from intact archaeological sites may be difficult to impossible given post-depositional taphonomic processes and in cases of island and coastal locations the inundation of landscapes resulting from post-Pleistocene sea-level rise. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction is proving to be a more reliable method of identifying small-scale human colonization events than archaeological data alone. We demonstrate the method through a sediment-coring project across the Lesser Antilles and southern Caribbean. Paleoenvironmental data were collected informing on the timing of multiple island-colonization events and land-use histories spanning the full range of human occupations in the Caribbean, from the initial forays into the islands through the arrival and eventual domination of the landscapes and indigenous people by Europeans. In some areas, our data complement archaeological, paleoecological, and historical findings from the Lesser Antilles and in others amplify understanding of colonization history. Here, we highlight data relating to the timing and process of initial colonization in the eastern Caribbean. In particular, paleoenvironmental data from Trinidad, Grenada, Martinique, and Marie-Galante (Guadeloupe) provide a basis for revisiting initial colonization models of the Caribbean. We conclude that archaeological programs addressing human occupations dating to the early to mid-Holocene, especially in dynamic coastal settings, should systematically incorporate paleoenvironmental investigations. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/59767
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作者单位: Department of Anthropology, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, United States; Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd., 424 West Broadway Road, Tempe, AZ, United States; Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States; Department of Geography, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States; Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN, United States; Department of Anthropology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States; Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States; Department of Earth and Environmental Studies, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, United States
Recommended Citation:
Siegel P.E.,Jones J.G.,Pearsall D.M.,et al. Paleoenvironmental evidence for first human colonization of the eastern Caribbean[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2015-01-01,129