Research Catalog

Title

Archaeology and geoinformatics : case studies from the Caribbean / edited by Basil A. Reid.

Publication

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Reid, Basil A., 1961-

Description

xi, 234 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory

Uniform Title

Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.

Subjects

• Caribbean Area > Antiquities
• Indians of the West Indies > Antiquities
• Archaeological geology > Caribbean Area
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Geographic information systems > Caribbean Area

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-224) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Archaeology and Geoinformatics: Case Studies from the Caribbean / Basil A. Reid -- Pt. I. Archaeology, GIS, and Visibility Models -- 1. The Caribbean: A Continent Divided by Water / Joshua M. Torres and Reniel Rodriguez Ramos -- Pt. II. Archaeology, GIS, And Cultural Resource Management -- 2. Developing Weights-of-Evidence Predictive Models for the Cultural Resource Management of Pre-Columbian Sites in Trinidad / Basil A. Reid -- 3. Forward Planning: The Utilization of GIS in the Management of Archaeological Resources in Barbados / Kevin Farmer -- 4. Developing an Archaeological Information System for Trinidad and Tobago / Bheshem Ramlal and Basil A. Reid -- Pt. III. Archaeology, GIS, Cartography, GPS, Satellite Imagery, Aerial Photography, and Photogrammetry -- 5. Maps, Matricals, and Material Remains: An Archaeological GIS of Late-Eighteenth-Century Historic Sites on St. John, Danish West Indies / Douglas V. Armstrong, Mark W. Hauser, David W. Knight and Stephan Lenik -- 6. Understanding Nevis: GPS and Archaeological Field Survey in a Postcolonial Landscape / Roger H. Leech -- 7. The Use of Imagery to Locate Taino Sites in Jamaica in a GIS Environment / Parris Lyew-Ayee and Ivor Conolley -- Pt. IV. Archaeology and Geophysics -- 8. Geophysics and the Search for Raleigh's Outpost on Trinidad / Eric Klingelhofer -- 9. Geophysics and Volcanic Islands: Resistivity and Gradiometry on St. Eustatius / R. Grant Gilmore III -- Postscript: Archaeology and Geoinformatics from a Caribbeanist Perspective / Basil A. Reid.

ISBN

• 9780817316013 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0817316019 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780817354701 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0817354700 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780817380533 (electronic)
• 0817380531 (electronic)

LCCN

• 2007036716
• 40015458989

OCLC

• 171049494
• ocn171049494
• SCSB-5926815

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries