The Archaeology of Tibes: Life, Death, and Memory at an Early Ceremonial Center in the Caribbean
The Archaeology of Tibes: Life, Death, and Memory at an Early Ceremonial Center in the Caribbean
edited by L. Antonio Curet and Lisa M. Stringer contributions by José Mirão, Maria A. Nieves-Colón, William J. Pestle, Ali Pourmand, Charis L. Rodríguez Nieves, Reniel Rodríguez Ramos, Lisa M. Stringer, Joshua M. Torres, Anna Tsoupra, Gordon Ambrosino, L. Antonio Curet, Mariela V. Declet Pérez, Harper Dine, Geoffrey R. DuChemin, Debra K. Green and María Mercedes Martínez Milantchi
University of Alabama Press, 2025 Cloth: 978-0-8173-2216-8 | eISBN: 978-0-8173-9536-0 | Paper: 978-0-8173-6176-1 Library of Congress Classification F1969.A73 2025 Dewey Decimal Classification 972.957
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
A collection of new essays that brings archaeological insights and discoveries at the Tibes Ceremonial Center up to date
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
L. Antonio Curet is curator at the National Museum of the American Indian and an adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology at Catholic University of America. He is the author of Caribbean Paleodemography: Population, Culture History, and Sociopolitical Processes in Ancient Puerto Rico and coeditor of several books in The University of Alabama Press’s Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory series, for which he serves as series editor.
Lisa M. Stringer is laboratory director at the Ceremonial Center of Tibes Archaeological Project in Tibes, Puerto Rico. She coedited Tibes: People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos with Curet. She is affiliated with the Field Museum.
REVIEWS
"Curet and Stringer bring together the results of the most recent research at the iconic site and its surrounding region. Finding truly comparative information across sites in the Caribbean region has often been difficult over the years, and the book provides a quantity of useful comparative data. This is an important book for Caribbean archaeology." —Kathleen Deagan, author of En Bas Saline: A Taíno Town before and after Columbus— -
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Life, Death, and Memory at Tibes by L. Antonio Curet and Lisa M. Stringer
Chapter 1. Contexts: Excavations, Stratigraphy, and Disaster at Tibes by L. Antonio Curet
Chapter 2. Geoarchaeology of Tibes by Debra K. Green and L. Antonio Curet
Chapter 3. Ceramic Paste Recipes at Tibes: A Multianalytical Approach to Characterization and Provenance by María Mercedes Martínez Milantchi, Anna Tsoupra, and José Mirão
Chapter 4. Lithic Production at the Ceremonial Center of Tibes by Reniel Rodríguez Ramos
Chapter 5. Faunal Uniformity and Ceremony at Tibes by Geoffrey R. DuChemin and Charis L. Rodríguez Nieves
Chapter 6. Analyses of Coral from the Ceremonial Center of Tibes by Mariela V. Declet Pérez
Chapter 7. The Tibes Burials: New Perspectives on Ancient Lives by William J. Pestle, Maria A. Nieves-Colón, Harper Dine, and Ali Pourmand
Chapter 8. The Petroglyphs of Tibes: New Insights on the Development of the Earliest Known Ceremonial Center in the Greater Antilles by Gordon Ambrosino and L. Antonio Curet
Conclusion: The Beginning of a New (Hi)Story of Tibes by L. Antonio Curet, Joshua M. Torres, and Lisa M. Stringer
References Cited
List of Contributors
Index
