Pre-Columbian Art of the Caribbean

Across this broad and inclusive geographic span, the volume explores over four thousand years of art, from the Archaic period to the Conquest, with a special focus on the artistic florescence ushered in by Arawakan societies beginning some five centuries before the Common Era. The book gives equal attention to the more ancient Saladoid era as to the better known Taíno, illuminating the contextual, iconographic and aesthetic continuities, but also the distinctions between them. The book ends by drawing attention to the living legacies of the ancient Antilleans in the architecture, furniture, and other cultural expressions of today's Caribbean.