Prehistoric Guiana

by Denis Williams

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Pub. Date: August 2003

Format: Paperback, 505pp

Publisher: Randle, Ian Publishers, Incorporated

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Text Figures
Text Tables
List of Maps
Message from the Government of Guyana
Denis Williams - A Biographical Note
Foreword
Editor's Preface
Preface
Introduction	1
The Paleo-Indigenous Peoples	55
The Andean Heritage	62
Peoples of the Tropical Forest Archaic	76
Demography	76
Settlement pattern	86
Economy	100
The First Farmers	207
The Formative	236
The transition to horticulture on the Western Guiana Littoral	242
Mabaruma: origin, characterization, chronology	267
Domestication of the land on the Aruka River	272
Recharacterization of the Mabaruma phase	277
Periodification of the Mabaruma phase	280
Iconography	282
The Formative interaction sphere	290
The Protohistoric Mabaruma interaction sphere	297
The Proto-Eastern Maipuran Arawak migrations	301
Mound dwellers on the Eastern Guiana Littoral	317
The Proto-Northern/Proto-Eastern Arawo convergence	339
The demise of the Orinoco-Amazon interaction corridor	343
The Carib migrations	346
The Akawaio dispersal	367
Belief, magic, death and the forms of art	394
The woman potter in sacred and secular art	397
Inter-ethnic frontiers	400
Origin and Dissemination of Tropical Forest Culture in the Guianas	406
The principal migrations	408
Literature Cited	429
Index

Bibliography / Guyana