Maritime Survey Results of La Soye Bay

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Encounters on the Caribbean Frontier: Archaeology at LaSoye, Dominica", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

This paper focuses on the maritime components of the LaSoye archaeological project. Excavations from the terrestrial site, LaSoye 2, in 2018 and 2019 revealed that this site was occupied within the 16th century. An initial underwater survey via snorkel and scuba were conducted in 2019 to establish the viability of creating a dissertation project based on the submerged remains of the port. The discovery of a late 19th / early 20th century shipwreck in the northern part of the bay reinvigorated the need for a systematic survey of the area. Due to low visibility, remote sensing was determined to be the best method for gathering data about the seafloor and determining anthropological materials for ground-truthing. A Garmin Echo-map 75+ CV and transducer were engineered in the field for mapping the sea floor and detecting anomalies, which were ground- truthed by divers on Scuba.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Colonial Encounters on the Caribbean Frontier: Archaeology at LaSoye, Dominica   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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