In this chapter, we focus on broad topics related to human/environment interactions, time, scale, and complexity in the insular Caribbean. However, these topics are diversely entangled with tightly interrelated concepts that include power, gender, mobility, identity, ethnogenesis, language, warfare, islandscapes, places, animals, spirits, things and affect, and emotion, among others. The material manifestation of some of these concepts and their participative roles in forging, sustaining, and changing the Archaic Age communities are variably reflected in the chapters that follow. Finally, we outline avenues for future research.

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