Islands of Salt: Historical Archaeology of Seafarers and Things in the Venezuelan Caribbean 1624–1880: Konrad A. Antczak, Sidestone Press, Leiden, the Netherlands, 2019. 426 pp., 124 figs., 36 tables. €150.00 cloth, €49.95 paper.

Antczak's theoretical approach to seafarer-thing relationships becomes more succinctly articulated in archaeology-forward chapters later in the book. The fourth chapter focuses on the seafarers who camped and worked on the saltpan sites of La Tortuga and Cayo Sal. The book achieves much more than a comparative site-based analysis of seafarer-thing relations at saltpan camps. [Extracted from the article]