The Yale University Excavations in Trinidad of 1946 and 1953 (Yale University Publications in Anthropology)
In 1946 and 1953, Irving Ben Rouse led archaeological excavations at prehistoric to protohistoric sites on the island of Trinidad. This book presents an analysis of these excavationsuntil now unpublishedrelating the results of Rouses work to subsequent research at these sites by other investigators and to current knowledge of Trinidads cultural sequence and Amerindian ethnohistory. The first detailed study of indigenous cultural development in Trinidad covering its entire pre-Columbian through the historical Amerindian sequence, this work is a significant addition to the data on Caribbean archaeology.
