[...]... characterization of Jamaican archaeology is false The Institute of Jamaica, the Archaeological Society of Jamaica, the Jamaica National Heritage Trust and the University of the West Indies have sponsored and supported numerous projects, including both surveys and excavations The results of these projects provide a rich database that is the equal to studies conducted on other islands in the West Indies It... JAMAICA, THE indigenous population is still being referred to as the Arawaks, despite the adoption of the term Taínos to distinguish the native population of the Greater Antilles from the Arawaks of South America Irving Rouse defines the Taínos as the ethnic group that inhabited the Bahamian Archipelago, most of the Greater Antilles, and the northern part of the Lesser Antilles prior to and during the. .. Affecting Jamaican Taíno Research In the past fifty years, Jamaican archaeology has undergone significant developments: the establishment of the Archaeology Division ( Jamaica National Heritage Trust [ JNHT]), the introduction of archaeology at the University of the West Indies in 1987, and improvements in the training of Jamaican archaeologists The past decade has seen increased interest in Jamaican. .. to the post-excavation analysis of the material recovered The subject of the fourth chapter is the Green Castle, St Mary, excavations, a joint project between the University of the West Indies and Murray State University The project directors, Philip Allsworth-Jones and Kit Wesler, describe progress and findings during the past three seasons Andrea Richards, in the final chapter in this section, The. .. Kingston The authors examine the findings of two pilot studies, an examination of the molluscs recovered from Chancery Hall and the application of the neutron activation analysis of the pottery samples from the selected sites The Chancery Hall site is discussed in further detail in the three-part chapter The Pre-Columbian Site of Chancery Hall”, which chronicles the investigations of this Taíno site from... during the time of Columbus” (1992, 185) According to Rouse, in Columbus’s time the Taínos lacked an overall name The people referred to themselves by the names of the localities in which they lived – for example, the Puerto Ricans called themselves Borinquen, their name for the island, and the Bahamians called themselves Lucayo (Rouse 1992, 5) This raises the question of what was the Taínan name for... series of investigations have taken place across the island Some archaeologists discredit many of these investigations because amateur or “avocational” archaeologists conducted them Regardless, the works of these amateurs have contributed a lot of insight to Jamaican prehistory The first chapter, The Development of Jamaican Prehistory”, provides a background, not only for the evolution of Jamaican. .. used to denote the aborigines of the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas The Arawaks were the ethnic group that lived in the northern part of the Guianas, which formerly extended onto the high land around the Orinoco delta (Rouse 1992, 173) According to John Peter Bennett, the Arawaks had names for themselves and their language, Lokono and Loko respectively (Bennett 1989, iv) For decades the terms Arawak... in the field Because of the absence of conservators in the field, by the time an artefact enters the lab, the conservators can sometimes do nothing more than damage control At the other end of the spectrum is storage of artefacts, which is also crucial to conservation These are matters that preventive conservation addresses Unfortunately, the preventive approach has not been widely implemented Jamaican. .. summarized the results of these studies in 1939 The more general interest in the archaeology of the West Indies also continued into the early twentieth century Jesse Walter Fewkes made an expedition to Puerto Rico in 1907 for the Smithsonian Institution and wrote about West Indian archaeology in general (Fewkes 1922) Theodoor De Booy, working for the Heye Foundation, visited the Bahamas, the Turks and . x0 y0 w0 h0" alt="" The Earliest Inhabitants The Dynamics of the Jamaican Taíno Edited by Lesley-Gail Atkinson The Earliest Inhabitants University of the West Indies Press Jamaica • Barbados. defines the Taínos as the ethnic group that inhabited the Bahamian Archipelago, most of the Greater Antilles, and the northern part of the Lesser Antilles prior to and during the time of Columbus”. JAMAICA, THE indigenous population is still being referred to as the Arawaks, despite the adoption of the term Taínos to distinguish the native population of the Greater Antilles from the Arawaks of