Description:
In Caribbean Paleodemography, L. Antonio Curet blends archaeological evidence with demographic analysis to reconstruct the population dynamics of ancient Caribbean societies. This groundbreaking study explores how migration, mortality, fertility, and social organization shaped the region's cultural development long before European contact. A vital resource for scholars of archaeology, anthropology, and Caribbean history, the book offers a rare glimpse into the lives and movements of Indigenous peoples through a scientific and humanistic lens.
Review Quotes:
"A really substantial contribution to Caribbean prehistory. . . .Caribbean Paleodemography combines a highly significant discussion of Caribbean archaeology with a very useful introduction to paleodemography."
--Samuel M. Wilson, author of Hispaniola