2021/01/01 by Alain Queffelec, Pierrick Fouéré, Jean-Baptiste Caverne · 1 voice · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Maritime and Coastal Archaeology #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.5334/joad.74
openalex publication_date 2021/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Lapidary artifacts show an impressive abundance and diversity during the Ceramic period in the Caribbean islands, especially at the beginning of this period. Most of the raw materials used in this production do not exist naturally on the islands of the Lesser Antilles, nevertheless, many archaeological sites have yielded such artifacts on these islands. In the framework of a four-years-long project, we created a database by combining first hand observations and analysis, as well as a thorough literature survey. The result is a database including more than 100 sites and almost 5000 beads, pendants, blanks and raw material fragments. <strong>Publisher’s Note:</strong> A correction article relating to this paper has been published and can be found at <a href="/articles/10.5334/joad.82/">https://openarchaeologydata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/joad.82/</a>.