Fewkes' unique skills of observation and experience served him well in the quest to understand Caribbean prehistory and culture.
Until that time, for mainly political reasons, little scientific research had been conducted by Americans on any of the Caribbean islands. Originally published as the Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1907, this book was praised in an article in American Anthropologist as doing “more than any other to give a comprehensive idea of the archaeology of the West Indies.”
A valuable recounting of the first formal archaeological excavations in Puerto Rico
