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For permission to reuse this work, contact the University of Alabama Press. 2. Map of Trinidad showing the location of the watersheds in relation to the island’s physiography. You are reading copyrighted material published by the University of Alabama Press. S. Copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. For permission to reuse this work, contact the University of Alabama Press. 36 / Basil A. Reid the Caribbean’s most southerly island. The need to more effectively manage the pre-Columbian archaeology of Trinidad is pressing, given the continuing destruction and partial denudation of these sites as a direct result of agriculture, urbanization, and mining (Landell Mills Limited 1992).

Seven major classes constitute the Land Capability theme: (1) very good land that can be easily cultivated, (2) very good land, easily cultivated, for which simple protective measures are required, (3) good land that requires moderate to intensive conservation and management, (4) moderately good land that requires intensive conservation and management, (5) fairly good land that should be used for forest, tree crops, grazing, and buildings depending on the slope, (6) land unsuitable for agriculture because of slope and/or water limitations that should be left under indigenous growth or forest, and (7) land unsuitable for agriculture because of very steep slopes that should be left under indigenous growth or forest.

As such, we promote the notion that the Antillean social landscapes are spatially fluid in that they can be defined by the spaces not only where land touches water but also where land becomes water (Cooney 2003). Current theoretical conceptualizations of social landscapes have focused on phenomenological approaches in which action and movement in the physical world are part of the process of its construction (Bradley 2003; Certeau 1984; Gray 1999; Ingold 1993; Knapp and Ashmore 1999). Importantly, the key component to any phenomenological approach to landscapes is the way they are perceived and experienced by social actors and the relational nature of the physical world (Heidegger 1977; Ingold 1993; Tilley 1994).

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