Rock Art of the Caribbean (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory)

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This compilation, by an international grouping of scholars, makes a speciality of the nature of Caribbean rock art or rock graphics and makes clear the region’s substantial and distinctive rock art tradition. Thorough and comparative, it includes data at the history of rock graphic research, the nature of the assemblages (image numbers, types, locations), and the legal, conservation, and research status of the image sites. Chapters on these topics cover research at the islands of Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, Aruba, and Bonaire. The prehispanic rock art and other ceremonial structures and artifacts, at the side of enthnohistorical accounts of the region at Contact, projected backward in time, all point to an active ritual and ceremonial life involving commoners, religious specialists, and elites in differing and interconnected roles and for diverse purposes. The selective use of common rock graphic design and physical elements will also be seen within the distribution and execution of the carved and painted images. Pecked, ground, abraded, and scratched petroglyphs, at the side of pictographs done steadily in red, black, white and orange hues are found on a range of rock surfaces including limestones, granites, diorites, and andesites. Caves/rock shelters and rock formations associated with water sources (water ways, pools, ocean) account for the two most common locations, followed by ball court sites, inland rock outcroppings and beach rock.

 

Along with specific area presentations, the work features a review of contemporary advances in Caribbean rock graphic studies including dating and interpretative models; the application of a new documentation method and resulting computer manipulation advantages; a conservation project in Jamaica that has implications for the preservation and interpretation of the website; and a proposed dating sequence for the Lesser Antillean

Windward Islands.

 

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