Renewing the house Trajectories of social life in the yucayeque (community) of El Cabo, Higüey, Dominican Republic, AD 800 to 1504

• Main Author: Samson, Alice V.M (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden Sidestone Press 2010
• Subjects: Archaeology; archaeology; settlement archaeology; household archaeology; Taíno; Caribbean archaeology
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This study is a contribution to the household archaeology of the Caribbean. The aim of the research was to come to a material definition of the precolonial house, rather than rely on the few, short, Spanish colonial descriptions. Archaeological research from the indigenous Taíno site of El Cabo in t...