Archaeological Investigations between Cayenne Island and the Maroni River A cultural sequence of western coastal French Guiana from 5000 BP to present

• Main Author: van den Bel, Martijn M. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden Sidestone Press 2015
• Subjects: Archaeology; archaeology; americas; pre-Columbian; South America; French Guiana
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Stratigraphic archaeological research in French Guiana is barely 50 years old and has been conducted primarily in the coastal zone, stretching approximately between 5 and 50 kilometres from the Atlantic coast to the Precambrian Shield. This bias, mainly caused by means of modern infrastructure, has...