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"This volume details how new theories and methods have recently advanced the archaeological study of initial human colonization of islands around the world, including in the southwest Pacific, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia"--

Island people --- Island archaeology. --- History.

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Archaeologists have traditionally considered islands as distinct physical and social entities. In this book, Paul Rainbird discusses the historical construction of this characterization and questions the basis for such an understanding of island archaeology. Through a series of case studies of prehistoric archaeology in the Mediterranean, Pacific, Baltic, and Atlantic seas and oceans, he argues for a decentering of the land in favor of an emphasis on the archaeology of the sea and, ultimately, a new perspective on the making of maritime communities. The archaeology of islands is thus unshackled from approaches that highlight boundedness and isolation, and replaced with a new set of principles - that boundaries are fuzzy, islanders are distinctive in their expectation of contacts with people from over the seas, and that island life can tell us much about maritime communities. Debating islands, thus, brings to the fore issues of identity and community and a concern with Western construction of other peoples.

Island archaeology. --- Islands. --- Maritime anthropology. --- Island archaeology --- Islands --- Maritime anthropology --- Marine anthropology --- Marine ethnology --- Maritime ethnology --- Isles --- Islets --- Anthropology --- Ethnology --- Landforms --- Archaeology --- Social Sciences --- Archeology

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Island archaeology --- Ethnoarchaeology --- Environmental archaeology --- Hunting and gathering societies --- Human ecology --- Social archaeology --- History. --- Cedros Island (Mexico) --- Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula) --- Antiquities. --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions.

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Many of the papers in this volume present new and innovative research into the processes of maritime colonisation, processes that affect archaeological contexts from islands to continents. Others shift focus from process to the archaeology of maritime places from the Bering to the Torres Straits, providing highly detailed discussions of how living by and with the sea is woven into all elements of human life from subsistence to trade and to ritual. Of equal importance are more abstract discussions of islands as natural places refashioned by human occupation, either through the introduction of new organisms or new systems of production and consumption. These transformation stories gain further texture (and variety) through close examinations of some of the more significant consequences of colonisation and migration, particularly the creation of new cultural identities. A final set of papers explores the ways in which the techniques of archaeological sciences have provided insights into the fauna of the islands and the human history of such places.

Coastal archaeology --- Coastal settlements --- Island archaeology --- Underwater archaeology --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Prehistoric Anthropology --- History --- Coastal archaeology. --- Island archaeology. --- Underwater archaeology. --- History. --- Coastal sites (Archaeology) --- Coasts --- Archaeology, Submarine --- Marine archaeology --- Maritime archaeology --- Nautical archaeology --- Submarine archaeology --- Antiquities --- Human settlements --- Archaeology --- Underwater exploration --- Marine archaeologists

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According to the European chronicles, at the time of contact, the Greater Antilles were inhabited by the Tainos or Arawak Indians, who were organized in hierarchical societies. Since its inception Caribbean archaeology has used population as an important variable in explaining many social, political, and economic processes such as migration, changes in subsistence systems, and the development of institutionalized social stratification. In Caribbean Paleodemography, L. Antonio Curet argues that population has been used casually by Caribbean archaeologists and proposes more rigorous and promising

Demographic archaeology --- Island archaeology --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Indians of the West Indies --- Archaeology --- Demographic anthropology --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Indigenous peoples --- Migrations. --- Population. --- Antiquities. --- Methodology --- Puerto Rico