The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus

The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus

by Irving Rouse
ISBN-10:
0300056966
ISBN-13:
9780300056969
Pub. Date:
07/28/1993
Publisher:
Yale University Press
ISBN-10:
0300056966
ISBN-13:
9780300056969
Pub. Date:
07/28/1993
Publisher:
Yale University Press
The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus

The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus

by Irving Rouse

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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780300056969
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 07/28/1993
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Ch. IIntroduction
The Natural Setting1
The Tainos5
Neighboring Ethnic Groups19
Conclusions23
Ch. IIThe Ancestries of the Tainos26
Cultural Ancestry30
Linguistic Ancestry37
Biological Ancestry42
Conclusions45
Ch. IIIThe Peopling of the West Indies49
The Casimiroid Peoples, 4000-400 B.C.51
The Ortoiroid Peoples, 2000-400 B.C.62
The Ortoiroid-Casimiroid Frontier, 1000-400 B.C.67
Conclusions69
Ch. IVThe First Repeopling71
The Saladoid Peoples, 2000 B.C.-600 A.D.74
The Saladoid-Casimiroid Frontier, 200 B.C.-600 A.D.90
The Western Ostionoid Peoples, 600-150092
Conclusions101
Ch. VThe Emergence of the Tainos105
The Central Ostionoid Peoples, 600-1500109
The Eastern Ostionoid Peoples, 600-1640123
Beyond the Eastern Frontier, 600-1640127
Conclusions133
Ch. VIThe Second Repeopling138
The Voyages of Columbus, 1492-1504139
Conquest, 1494-1797150
Survival and Revival, 1524 On161
Conclusions164
Epilogue: The Tainos' Role in the Columbian Exchange169
Biological Traits169
Cultural Traits170
Linguistic Traits171
Conclusions171
Glossary173
References187
Index203
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