“This interesting, informative book seeks to free Caribbean archaeological research from the standard tropes that have shaped understanding of the region's precolonial past. Theoretically engaging and methodologically rigorous, the book offers fresh insights into key debates in Caribbean archaeology. Highly recommended.”
—CHOICE
“I predict this work will become a classic in due time, and a book that will have to be quoted for a long, long time to come.
—Jose Oliver, Lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London
“These types of critiques and revisions are what makes science move forward. Rodriguez Ramos' comprehensive review and analysis of the data will definitely shake our perceptions or Caribbean archaeology.”
—L. Antonio Curet, Field Museum
“This book revolutionizes the cultural geography of the precolonial Caribbean, and is the latest and most forceful proponent of a paradigm shift [that] has seen Caribbean scholars break out of their traditional culture area and move away from pottery-based histories of migration. . . . This is an engagingly written book, and well-timed with respect to the accumulation of new evidence. It is also an inspiring contribution whose aim to ‘decolonize’ Puerto Rican and Caribbean archaeology will provoke new research questions and lines of hypothesis-testing.
—Antiquity