Interacting Pre-Columbian Amerindian Societies and Environments: Insights from Five Millennia of Archaeological Invertebrate Record on the Saint- Martin Island (French Lesser Antilles)

International audience Archaeological research, conducted on the French part of Saint-Martin, in the Lesser Antilles, documents the history of Amerindian communities on this island from the 4th millennium BC to the 15th century AD. Eight sites, spanning almost completely this sequence, have yielded...

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Published in:Environmental Archaeology
Main Authors: Serrand, Nathalie, Bonnissent, Dominique
Other Authors: Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap), Archéozoologie, archéobotanique : sociétés, pratiques et environnements (AASPE), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire méditerranéen de préhistoire Europe-Afrique (LAMPEA), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ministère de la Culture (MC)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2021
Subjects:
Saint-Martin island
anthropic/natural systems
palaeo-climate
palaeo-environment
archaeomalacology
[SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory
Martin Island
Online Access:https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02526948
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02526948/document
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02526948/file/2018_Serrand-Bonnissent_InteractPrecoAm%20Soc%20%26%20Enviro%205%20Mill%20Archaeo%20Inverteb%20Record%20StMartin_Environmental%20Archaeology.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2018.1450463
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Summary:International audience Archaeological research, conducted on the French part of Saint-Martin, in the Lesser Antilles, documents the history of Amerindian communities on this island from the 4th millennium BC to the 15th century AD. Eight sites, spanning almost completely this sequence, have yielded extensive assemblages of invertebrate remains. Analysis and comparison of these assemblages with contemporaneous settlements from nearby islands reveal trends in the ways Amerindian communities exploited these resources. These results, especially when contrasted with a palaeo-climatic frame recently produced for Saint-Martin, reflect the intricate ways in which anthropic and natural systems interact.

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