Table of Contents

Ethnohistorical research in the Hispanic Caribbean, Jalil Sued-Badillo; the physical environment - biogeographical teleconnections in Caribbean prehistory, Francisco Watlington; the first Caribbean people - part 1 - the Palaeoindians in Cuba and the circum-Caribbean, Jose M. Guarch-Delmonte, part 2 - the Archaics, A. Gus Pantel; agricultural societies in the Caribbean, Arie Boomert; agricultural societies in the Caribbean - the greater Antilles and the Bahamas, Luis A. Chanlatte Baik; the indigenous societies at the time of conquest, Jalil Sued-Badillo; chiefdoms in the islands and mainland - a comparison, Francisco Moscoso; freedom and servitude - indigenous slavery and the Spanish conquest of the Caribbean, Luis N. Rivera-Pagan.