Stratigraphic archaeological research in French Guiana is barely 50 years old and has been conducted primarily in the coastal zone, stretching approximately between 5 and 50 kilometres from the Atlantic coast to the Precambrian Shield. This bias, mainly caused by means of modern infrastructure, has sketched an archaeological record concerning pre-Columbian French Guiana focussing on the Late Ceramic Age (AD 900-1500) of Cayenne Island as well as the western Holocene coastal plains. The presen...

Dit boek is de heruitgave van de reisverslagen van Adriaan van Berkel, oorspronkelijk gepubliceerd in 1695 door uitgever Johan ten Hoorn in Amsterdam. Het eerste deel beschrijft de avonturen van Adriaan van Berkel in Berbice, het oostelijk deel van het huidige Guyana; het tweede deel geeft een beschrijving van Suriname, de van oorsprong Engelse kolonie die in 1667 in Nederlandse handen was gekomen.

Deze geannoteerde uitgave van Martijn van den Bel, Lodewijk Hulsman en Lodewijk Wagenaar bevat ...

This book is a reissue of the travelogue of Adriaan van Berkel, first published in 1695 by Johan ten Hoorn in Amsterdam. The first part deals with Van Berkel's adventures in the Dutch colony located on the Berbice River in the Guianas; the second part is a description of Surinam, the adjacent colony the Dutch took over from the British in 1667.This reissue, edited by Martijn van den Bel, Lodewijk Hulsman and Lodewijk Wagenaar, contains a new annotated English translation as well as an integra...