naa a22 4500 510741681 CHVBK 20180411083030.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11457-013-9110-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11457-013-9110-8 Fitzpatrick Scott Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA aut Seafaring Capabilities in the Pre-Columbian Caribbean [Elektronische Daten] [Scott Fitzpatrick] At historic contact Europeans remarked on the skill and proficiency of native Caribbean Amerindians to build and travel in dugout canoes. While archaeological examples of these have been recorded throughout the circum-Caribbean, very few exist in the Antillean chain of islands. Despite this deficiency, indirect evidence of seafaring along with archaeological data has suggested to many that the sea was an artery that linked prehistoric communities together between islands and continents through exchange networks and settlement ‘lifelines'. It is clear that frequent interaction was taking place prehistorically in the region, but examination of seafaring capabilities and the general lack of hard archaeological evidence for contacts in many places suggest this was largely restricted to interaction between the islands and with South America. The fact remains that seafaring in the Caribbean, as one of the smaller aquatic realms inhabited by humans in the past, was highly influenced and largely structured by oceanographic and anemological effects that limited the development of various watercraft designs and navigational techniques which are seen in many of the other world's seas and oceans. In this paper I: (1) synthesize what is currently known about the antiquity and development of early seafaring in the Caribbean; (2) highlight debates about the level of technologies found in the region; (3) discuss how environmental conditions likely influenced seafaring capabilities and settlement patterns; (4) outline the possible evidence for connections between the different surrounding mainland areas; and (5) provide a comparison with seafaring technologies found in the Pacific to help contextualize the Caribbean into the broader context of global seafaring. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2013 Prehistoric watercraft nationallicence Canoes nationallicence Maritime interaction nationallicence Antilles nationallicence West Indies nationallicence Journal of Maritime Archaeology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 8/1(2013-06-01), 101-138 1557-2285 8:1<101 2013 8 11457 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-013-9110-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 review-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-013-9110-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Fitzpatrick Scott Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Maritime Archaeology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 8/1(2013-06-01), 101-138 1557-2285 8:1<101 2013 8 11457 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer