In 1946 and 1953, Irving "Ben" Rouse led archaeological excavations at prehistoric to protohistoric sites on the island of Trinidad. This book presents an analysis of these excavations - until now unpublished - relating the results of Rouse's work to subsequent research at these sites by other investigators and to current knowledge of Trinidad's cultural sequence and Amerindian ethnohistory. The first detailed study of indigenous cultural development in Trinidad covering its entire pre-Columbian through the historical Amerindian sequence, this work is a significant addition to the data on Caribbean archaeology. Arie Boomert is Assistant Professor Emeritus at Leiden University and a curatorial affiliate in the Division of Anthropology at Yale University's Peabody Museum of Natural History. Birgit Faber-Morse is a curatorial affiliate in the Division of Anthropology, Yale University. Irving Rouse was Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of Anthropology, Yale University, and a curator of anthropology at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
- ISBN10 0300185936
- ISBN13 9780300185935
- Publish Date 6 January 2015
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 12 November 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 193
- Language English