HIS294Y1 Lecture Notes - Saladoid, Igneri, Christian Mythology
Document Summary
Peopling and re-peopling: politics, culture and migration in the pre-columbian antilles. Archeologists don"t agree on anything and therefore studying it is a little difficult: they do agree on certain things that therefore become complete. Concept that unifies archeologists: caribbean"s history as a series of peopling"s and repeoplings: a concept created by irving rouse, human settlement in the caribbean that has always been thought of as one of migration. Rouse also argues that there was a shared world between the islands and the mainland so the people had always intergrated with each other. The lithic, archeaic and ceramic ages (according to archeologists) are important for our understanding. In different locals, eras may be named according to the different sites that materials that mark the age were found in: ex. Saladoid is the accepted name for the ceramic age and it"s named after a site in venezuela. The lithic archaic ages are characterized by the hunter-gatherer style of life.
