Download or read book Pre-Columbian Regional Community Integration in Dominica, West Indies written by Isaac Shearn and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation presents the synthesis of five years of research into the pre-Columbian archaeology of Dominica, one of the most ruggedly mountainous volcanic islands in the eastern Caribbean. The main objective of the project was to investigate settlement patterns and artifact variability in a comparative framework in order to characterize aspects of community organization and regional sociopolitical integration during the Late Ceramic Age (ca. A.D. 600-1500). Following the recognition that the sea functioned more like a highway than a boundary, regional interactivity and inter-island relationships have come to dominate archaeological discourse in the Caribbean. This research considers the corollary that there may have been more apparent differences between communities separated by landmasses than those separated by the sea. Adopting a multiscalar perspective, three micro-regions along the windward coast of Dominica were chosen for extensive archaeological survey and comparisons were constructed both within and between micro-regions.