Oliver, José R;
(2022)
Pre-Colombian megaliths of the Caribbean:
bateyes and plazas of the Greater Antilles.
In: Laporte, Luc and Large, Jean-Marc and Nespoulous, Laurent and Scarre, Chris and Steimer-Herbet, Tara, (eds.)
Megaliths of the World.
(pp. 131-158).
Archaeopress Publishing: Oxford, UK.
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Abstract
This chapter presents an overview of the pre-Colombian megalithic constructions in the Caribbean Islands. Megalithic works are distributed between Southeastern Hispaniola and the Virgin Islands, with Puerto Rico showing the largest concentration. In the Caribbean, they are always used to demarcate civic-ceremonial precincts: plazas, bateyes (ball-courts/ games) and other ritual spaces. In Eastern Cuba and throughout most of Hispaniola, the civic-ceremonial precincts are instead demarcated by large earth ridges of embankments, while elsewhere in the Caribbean these ceremonial spaces remained unmarked.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Pre-Colombian megaliths of the Caribbean: bateyes and plazas of the Greater Antilles |
| ISBN-13: | 9781803273204 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.32028/9781803273204 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.32028/9781803273204 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Caribbean, Puerto Rico, monumentality, ceremonial centers, plazas, ballcourts (batey), earthworks, petroglyphs, Las Flores, Tibes, Caguana, Bateyes de Viví |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10177932 |
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