Author: ROUSE, IRVING
Title: The Tainos Rise & Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus
Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. Hardcover. ISBN: 0300051816. xii, 211 pp. "When Columbus arrived in the Americas. the first people he encountered were the Tainos, inhabitants of the islands of the northern Caribbean Sea. In this book a noted archaeologist and anthropologist tells the story of the Tainos from their ancestral days on the South American continent to their rapid decline after contact with the Spanish explorers." - dust jacket. Attempts to answer "Who were the Tainos? Whence came their ancestors? How did they evolve and become dominant in the West Indies? Why did they decline and disappear under European Rule? What innovations did they contribute to the rest of the world?" - Preface. Includes: Glossary, Index, and Reference List. Includes forty black and white illustrations. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. An attractive copy of this fascinating study.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Taino Indians, Indians of the West Indies, Antiquities, West Indies, Christopher Columbus. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: 0300051816
Title: The Tainos Rise & Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus
Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. Hardcover. ISBN: 0300051816. xii, 211 pp. "When Columbus arrived in the Americas. the first people he encountered were the Tainos, inhabitants of the islands of the northern Caribbean Sea. In this book a noted archaeologist and anthropologist tells the story of the Tainos from their ancestral days on the South American continent to their rapid decline after contact with the Spanish explorers." - dust jacket. Attempts to answer "Who were the Tainos? Whence came their ancestors? How did they evolve and become dominant in the West Indies? Why did they decline and disappear under European Rule? What innovations did they contribute to the rest of the world?" - Preface. Includes: Glossary, Index, and Reference List. Includes forty black and white illustrations. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. An attractive copy of this fascinating study.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Taino Indians, Indians of the West Indies, Antiquities, West Indies, Christopher Columbus. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: 0300051816
Price: US$ 79.95 Seller: RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines
- Book number: 732h5607
- Book number: 732h5607