On Land and Sea
On Land and Sea examines the condition of biosystems on Caribbean islands at the time of first colonization by Native Americans, interactions between humans and those systems through time, and the current state of biological resources in the West Indies. Drawing on a massive data set collected from long-term archaeological research, the study reconstructs past lifeways on these small tropical islands. The volume provides a storehouse of information on the human ecology of the Caribbean and illuminates the processes of colonization of an island system anywhere in the world.
