By Lee A. Newsom,Elizabeth S. Wing
On Land and Sea examines the situation of biosystems on Caribbean islands on the time of colonization, human interactions with these platforms via time, and the present country of organic assets within the West Indies. Drawing on an important facts set amassed from long term archaeological learn, the research reconstructs earlier lifeways on those small tropical islands. The paintings provides a variety of details, together with kinds of gasoline and building bushes utilized by population, cooking ideas for numerous shellfish, availability and use of medicinal and formality crops, the consequences on local crops and animals of cultivation and domestication, and nutrition and food of local populations.
The islands of the Caribbean basin stay actively excavated and studied within the quest to appreciate the earliest human population of the hot international. This complete paintings will floor present and destiny reviews and may be necessary to archaeologists, anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, Caribbeanists, Latin American historians, and a person learning related island environments.
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On Land and Sea: Native American Uses of Biological Resources in the West Indies by Lee A. Newsom,Elizabeth S. Wing
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