TY  - BOOK
AU  - Curet,L.Antonio
AU  - Stringer,Lisa M.
TI  - Tibes: people, power, and ritual at the center of the cosmos 
T2  - Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory
SN  - 0817382526
AV  - F1969 .T53 2010
U1  - 972.95/7 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Tuscaloosa
PB  - University of Alabama Press
KW  - Centro Ceremonial Indígena de Tibes (Tibes, Ponce, P.R.)
KW  - Indians of the West Indies
KW  - Puerto Rico
KW  - Tibes (Ponce)
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology)
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Sacred space
KW  - History
KW  - Landscapes
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Tibes (Ponce, P.R.)
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-322) and index; Introduction / L. Antonio Curet and Lisa M. Stringer -- Tibes : history and first archaeological work / Pedro Alvarado Zayas and L. Antonio Curet -- The archaeological project of the Ceremonial Center of Tibes / L. Antonio Curet -- Geophysical prospection at the ceremonial site of Tibes, 1998-2001 / Daniel Welch -- Paleoethnobotanical research at Tibes / Lee A. Newsom -- Animal use at the Tibes Ceremonial Center / Susan D. deFrance ... [et al.] -- Lithics from the Tibes ceremonial site : analysis of the stone artifacts from the 1996-1999 field seasons / Jeffery B. Walker -- Boulder lithology survey at the Tibes ceremonial site / Scott Rice-Snow ... [et al.] -- Ancient bones tell stories : osteobiography of human remains from Tibes / Edwin F. Crespo-Torres -- Bone chemistry and paleodiet at the Ceremonial Center of Tibes / William J. Pestle -- Tibes and the social landscape : integration, interaction, and the community / Joshua M. Torres -- Plazas, bateys, and ceremonial centers : the social and cultural context of Tibes in the ancient history of Puerto Rico / L. Antonio Curet and Joshua M. Torres
N2  - The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto Rico.  The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and on the other two sides by hills, this approximately 10.5-acre site remains as fertile and productive today as when first occupied over 2,000 years ago. Such a rich region would have been a choice location for native peoples because of the diversity in all resources, from land, air, and
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