Pre-Colombian Jamaica: Caribbean Archeology and Ethnohistory

xii / Acknowledgments
Aboukir, now on display at the National Gallery, and also color copies of the
fish paintings done by the late Audrey Wiles, the species being identified by
Mr. Karl Aiken. Thanks go to Professor Gerald Lalor and Dr. Mitko Vutchkov
(The International Centre for Environmental and Nuclear Science [ICENS])
for undertaking the X- ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis of some of the potsherds
in the Lee Collection, and also to Mrs. Jane Arimah (then working at ICENS)
for helping to prepare some of the maps. Mrs. Joy Ellis (Jamaica Bauxite Institute
[JBI]) has rendered indispensable help in setting up the Access program
on the CD- ROM and making sure that it worked smoothly, and Dr. Anthony
Newton (Edinburgh University) is also thanked for his advice in this regard.
Mrs. Nichole Morgan (JBI) and Mrs. Karen Spence (UWI) rendered administrative
support throughout, as did Mr. Parris Lyew- Ayee, the General Manager
of the Jamaica Bauxite Institute. He took a keen interest in all aspects of
the project, which without him would never have come into being at all. Not
least, Dr. James Lee and his family continued to provide all the information
and support they could, and it is hoped that this work will be a fitting memorial
to him. It is a matter for regret that he did not live to see the final publication,
but he knew that it was on the way. The project to create the CD- ROM
was clearly a team effort, and this was acknowledged in the summary presented
to the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology (IACA) in 2003
( Allsworth- Jones and Rodriques 2005). It must be said however that it would
never have succeeded had it not been for the devoted effort and attention to detail
displayed by Esther Rodriques in its execution. Without her work on the
CD, in turn, this book could not have been written, and therefore the author’s
thanks go above all to her.
At the suggestion of the publisher, it was decided to include in this volume
a reprinted version of J. E. Duerden’s article of 1897, “Aboriginal Indian Remains
in Jamaica.” To obtain a copy of the original article that is in reasonable
condition is not easy. Thanks go to Hermann van Asbroek for making available
his copy, which came into his possession from the estate of the late Raymond
Brandon, and to Jillian Galle and the members of her team, Leslie Cooper and
Hal Sharp, for their assistance in scanning it to a DVD. The text was then finally
transcribed by Judith Knight at The University of Alabama Press, and
that is the form in which it appears here.