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Handbook of ceramic animal symbols in the ancient Lesser Antilles
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Handbook of ceramic animal symbols in the ancient Lesser Antilles / Lawrence Waldron.
ISBN
9781683400011
1683400011
Publication
Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2016]
Physical Description
xxii, 266 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 29 cm.
Summary
The present study attempts to survey and illustrate Saladoid ceramics and other objects from Caribbean countries in over twenty collections throughout that region and the United States with a focus on prominent zoomorphic iconography.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 23, 2017
Series
Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Antillean horizons: early ceramic florescence migrations into the Antilles
Early ceramic series, styles and phases of the Lower Orinoco and Antilles
A methodological framework for the study of Pre-Columbian Caribbean zoomorphic iconography
Zoomorphic iconography: terrestrial and aquatic mammals
Zoomorphic iconography: bats
Zoomorphic iconography: birds
Zoomorphic iconography: reptiles and amphibians
Becoming island people: animal symbols and cultural difference in the Antillean Saladoid.
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