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Tradition summary: Late Caribbean

HRAFNew Haven, Conn.Published In 2000 • Pages:

By: Weeks, John.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a summary of the Late Caribbean Tradition.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Identification
Culture summary
traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Late Caribbean
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
2000
RegionThe area the document pertains to
Middle America and the Caribbean
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Caribbean
Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
essay
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Archaeologist
Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
5: Excellent Primary Data
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
John Beierle; 1999
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1000-500 BP
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos Islands, Martinique, Venezuela, Colombia, The Bahamas, Dominican Republic
NotesAdditional notes
John Weeks
The tradition summary is from the article, "Late Caribbean," by John Weeks, in the Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Volume 7: South America. Peter N. Peregrine and Melvin Ember, eds. New York: Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2002. We thank John Weeks and Peter N. Peregrine for bibliographic suggestions.
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Caribbean Area--Antiquities