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From a noted archeologist/anthropologist, the story of the
Tainos-the first people Columbus encountered when he arrived in the
Americas-from their earliest days to their rapid decline after
European contact "A model of clarity and lightly worn erudition,
and it contains the best and most straightforward description of
the four Columbus voyages and their implications for the
Amerindians I have seen."-Kenneth Maxwell, New York Times Book
Review Drawing on archeological and ethno-historical evidence,
Irving Rouse sketches a picture of the Tainos as they existed
during the time of Columbus, contrasting their customs with those
of their neighbors. He then moves backward in time to the ancestors
of the Tainos-two successive groups who settled the West Indies and
who are known to archeologists as the Saladoid peoples and the
Ostionoid peoples. By reconstructing the development of these
groups and studying their interaction with other groups during the
centuries before Columbus, Rouse shows precisely who the Tainos
were. He vividly recounts Columbus's four voyages, the events of
the European contact, and the early Spanish views of the Tainos,
particularly their art and religion. The narration shows that the
Tainos did not long survive the advent of Columbus. Weakened by
forced labor, malnutrition, and diseases introduced by the
foreigners, and dispersed by migration and intermarriage, they
ceased to exist as a separate population group. As Rouse discusses
the Tainos' contributions to the Spaniards-from Indian corn,
tobacco, and rubber balls to art, artifacts, and new words-we
realize that their effect on Western civilization, brief through
their contact, was an important and lasting one.
Study Of The Anvik-Shageluk Group Of Ingalik Indians On The Lower
Yukon River, Concepts Of Human Anatomy, Animal And Plant Life,
Natural Phenomena, Calendar, Etc. Are Explained.
Yale University Publications In Anthropology, No. 37.
With Notes On Other Puerto Rico Sites Visited In 1914-1915. Also
Includes An Analysis Of The Artifacts Of The 1914-1915 Puerto Rican
Survey, By Irving Rouse. Additional Editor Is Roy Waldo Miner.
Yale University Publications In Anthropology, No. 66. An Analysis
Of The Fertility Data From Sixty-One Nonindustrial Societies In
Africa, America, Asia And The Pacific, Including Eskimo In
Frobisher Bay.
Yale University Publications In Anthropology, No. 66. An Analysis
Of The Fertility Data From Sixty-One Nonindustrial Societies In
Africa, America, Asia And The Pacific, Including Eskimo In
Frobisher Bay.
Yale University Publications In Anthropology, No. 23-24.
Yale University Publications In Anthropology, No. 47.
Yale University Publications In Anthropology, No. 47.
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