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Today, traces of Native American presence in Martinique are scarsely visible but before the European invasion the island has been old Indian land for at least 1500 years. For ten years, between 1995 and 2005, an international multidisciplinary team has worked to study pre-Columbian occupation of Martinique. This book is one of the products from this research. About the editor: Benoit Berard is currently an associate professor of Caribean Archaeology at the Universite des Antilles et de la Guyane in Martinique campus where he is head of the history department and Vice-director of the...

Benoit Berard's study aims to identify and characterise the earliest agricultural occupations of the Antillean Islands, taking Martinique as his main case study. Essentially a collation and synthesis of old and new data gained through recent fieldwork, he examines the Vive complex which characterises the early phase of agricultural settlement on the island. A detailed examination of ceramic and lithic evidence succeeds his discussion of Huecoid and Saladoid cultures, dating evidence, the island environment, management of island resources, spatial organisation of settlements and long-distnace...