Archaeology in the Lowland American Tropics

List of figures List of tables List of contributors Introduction Peter W. Stahl 1. Archaeological survey and site discovery in the forested neotropics James A. Zeidler 2. The archaeology of community organization in the tropical lowlands: a case study from Puerto Rico Peter E. Siegel 3. Archaeological methods for the study of ancient landscapes of the Llanos de Mojos in the Bolivian Amazon Clark L. Erickson 4. Searching for environmental stress: climatic and anthropogenic influences on the landscape of Colombia Warwick Bray 5. 'Doing' paleoethnobotany in the tropical lowlands: adaptation and innovation in methodology Deborah M. Pearsall 6. Plant microfossils and their application in the New World tropics Dolores R. Piperno 7. Differential preservation histories affecting the mammalian zooarchaeological record from the forested neotropical lowlands Peter W. Stahl 8. Biological research with archaeologically recovered human remains from Ecuador: methodological issues Douglas H. Ubelaker 9. Interpreting dietary maize from bone stable isotopes in the American tropics: the state of the art Lynette Norr 10. From potsherds to pots: a first step in constructing cultural context from tropical forest archaeology J. Scott Raymond 11. Returning to Pueblo Viejo: history and archaeology of the Chachi (Ecuador) Warren R. Deboer References Index.