Caribbean (Geographic Keyword)

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Developing Reproducible Methods for Defining and Evaluating Ceramic Compositional Groups Derived from NAA and LA-ICP-MS (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Fraser Neiman. Lindsay Bloch. Jillian Galle. Jeffrey Ferguson.

The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS), in collaboration with MURR and UNC Research Laboratories of Archaeology, has analyzed the elemental composition of nearly 400 coarse earthenware sherds from eighteenth and early nineteenth century plantation contexts from Jamaica. All of the sherds were analyzed using Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA), while nearly forty percent of these same sherds were analyzed via laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry...


Did the Maya Care about the Precession of the Equinox? (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Anthony Aveni.

This is an abstract from the "Coffee, Clever T-Shirts, and Papers in Honor of John S. Justeson" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Updating progress on a collaborative project with the honoree, John Justeson, regardng the study of the use of Maya long numbers in the inscriptions.


Diet change in the Ceramic Age Caribbean archipelago (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Hayley Mickleburgh. Jaime Pagán-Jiménez.

This paper addresses temporal changes in dietary practices in the Ceramic Age (500BC – AD1500) Caribbean. Evidence from human dental wear and pathology has indicated a broad shift in dietary practices from the Early Ceramic Age (500BC – AD600/800) to the Late Ceramic Age (AD600/800 – AD1500). Comparisons between the two periods revealed significant differences in the rate of dental wear and pathology, suggesting a growing focus on refined, cariogenic foods, most likely horticultural produce....


Digging the Dockyard: An Analysis of Curation Practices in Antigua (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ariel Peasley. Georgia Fox.

Museums and their exhibitions are representations of archaeological research. Archaeological excavations, associated objects, and subsequent interpretations frequently end up in museums and are often the only access the general public has to this knowledge. How objects are acquired, cared for, and presented ultimately affect what people learn about them in a museum setting. It is crucial for museums and museum professionals to maintain standard practices and care for these objects to the best of...


Digging the Past- Creating New Pathways for the Future: Graduate Student Perspective from the Field (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jen-I Costosa.

As local communities are trying to adapt to the challenges of the anthropocene they are being faced not just with the loss of archaeological sites but also their livelihoods, identity and home. When living in a small island developing state (SIDS), the partnership of cultural heritage investigations with citizen science, transcends theory and provides the local participants with the tools to conserve and preserve the stories of the past while making empowered solutions towards challenges of the...


Discovery of Plantation Row Housing on Cat Island, Bahamas (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Shannon Murphy.

Multiunit housing for enslaved populations was introduced to estates in the West Indies at the dawn of the nineteenth century during the broader British movement to improve habitations of both free and unfree rural laborers. Planters attempted to counter abolitionist criticism by installing housing that incorporated new layouts and more durable materials. Material culture studies of plantations in the Bahamian archipelago, however, have long recognized an absence of row house architecture. This...


Diverse Identities of Plantation Life: Midden excavation on Betty's Hope Plantation (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Katelyn Schoenike. Olivia Navarro-Farr. Fox Georgia.

Betty’s Hope Plantation, on the island of Antigua has been excavated by California State University, Chico, since 2007. The site incorporates a wide-range of diverse use-areas including the Great House, a rum distillery, and slave quarters. Excavations have revealed that every area of the plantation represents a unique community with distinct material culture. In the 2014 season, researchers discovered a midden that appears to have been utilized by two of these diverse plantation communities....


"Do you think I am an automaton?": Post-emancipation Caribbean Factories and Social Industrialism (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Charlotte Goudge.

Studies of industrial production have taken a prominent position within social theory. Social implications of factories and productive landscapes in the Caribbean have often been obscured by the socio-cultural palimpsest of plantation environments. Material culture studies of Caribbean factories, both structures and machinery, can be vital descriptors regarding enslaved and emancipated labour narratives. The connection between industrialisation, machinery, slavery, and manumission underlies...


Documenting the First Battle of the Spanish-Cuban-American War (1898): Insights for an Archaeological Perspective (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Odlanyer Hernandez-de-Lara. Johanset Orihuela. Boris Rodriguez. Ricardo Viera.

The Spanish-Cuban-American War of 1898 constituted not only the events leading to the start of the first modern war but also marked the beginning of the colonialist expansion of the United States throughout the world. The explosion of the USS Maine in Havana’s harbor has often been interpreted as the excuse used by the US to get involved in the Cuban War of Independence; a war that Cubans and Spaniards had been fighting since 1895, but rooted since 1868. Previous research has traditionally...


The Down and Dirty: Differential Preservation of Burials from Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Cemeteries on Sint Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kallista Karastamatis. Ashley McKeown. Courtney Siegert.

This is an abstract from the "NSF REU Site: Exploring Globalization through Archaeology 2019–2020 Session, St. Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study explores the markedly different preservation of skeletal remains from two historic cemeteries situated within 500 m of each other on the Dutch Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius. The burials of eighteenth-century enslaved Africans are located along the coast and are...


A Dream Deported: Race, Crime, and Deportation in Transnational Haiti (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2019)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Since 2011, the United States has classified an increasing number of migrants as 'criminal aliens' for the purposes of deportation. Recent studies have illustrated this policy's social toll: chronic insecurity among migrants, suffering among families torn apart, and alienation among those sent to an unfamiliar 'homeland' and as 'criminals' (e.g., Boehm 2016;Coutin 2016;Golash-Boza 2015;Khosravi...


Dwelling Practices at the Cabrits Garrison Laborer Village (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachary Beier.

Colonial military sites in the Caribbean have traditionally been considered as dominant monuments of European expansion, technology, control, and competition. Missing from these narratives are the diverse communities that came together within the walls of fortifications. At the Cabrits Garrison, Dominica, occupied by the British military between 1763 and 1854, the policy of incorporating enslaved laborers into auxiliary roles and later into soldiers serving in the West India Regiments is a part...


Dynamic Coastlines: Modeling the Impacts of the Intertidal Zone Transformation for Puerto Rico during the Mid- to Late Holocene (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Rodríguez-Delgado.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As Caribbean research engages in the study of past human-environmental relations, few efforts have focused on the reconstruction of the dynamic intertidal zone and its impacts on past food security and livelihood. Interdisciplinary approaches can address this gap as these paleogeographic and paleoclimatic reconstructions contribute an understanding of coastal...


Dynamics of a Post-Sugar Montserrat in the Era of Lime (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha M Ellens.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines Montserrat’s citrus lime industry (ca.1852-1928) as a case study for understanding the ways new Caribbean agro-industries impacted the lives of island residents and changed the physical landscape in the wake of emancipation. The lime industry marked a major period of transformation for the Caribbean island and...


The Earliest Dated Skeletal Remains from the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mirjana Roksandic. Sagrario Balladares. Leonardo Lechado. Donald Byers.

A recent discovery of a female skeleton from Monkey Point – a shell matrix site on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua – represents the earliest confirmed evidence of the occupation of the region. In 2014, the skeleton eroded from the profile (left unprotected after the excavations in the 1970s) prompting rescue excavations. The skeleton was not disturbed, and the excavations could follow proper archaeological procedures, allowing us to reconstruct the burial position and to attempt chronometric 14C...


Early Human Occupation on Bonaire and Curacao, Dutch Caribbean (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jay Haviser. Menno Hoogland. Joost Morsink. Ruud Stelten. Corinne Hofman.

In January 2016, Leiden University initiated a project on Bonaire, Dutch Caribbean. Through a multidisciplinary perspective, and in comparison with earlier Leiden research on Curacao, the goal of this project is to examine how people utilized the landscape during the earliest occupation of the islands. Archaeological investigations focus on two locations; Wanapa II site and caves. Located behind Lac Bay, the Wanapa II site will yield data on settlement dynamics and house structures on Bonaire....


Early Native and African marooning in Northern South America the circum-Caribbean (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Beatty-Medina.

This is an abstract from the "Disentanglement: Reimagining Early Colonial Trajectories in the Americas" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper explores the dual development of African and Native American maroon societies in early Spanish America. Although marronage was widely practiced by Native Americans and Africans, maroon history has been largely defined by African agents. In the early colonial period Africans and Native Americans robustly...


Early Settlement on the Island of Grenada: Ecological Evidence for the Extinction of Rodents and Palms (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John G. Jones.

Evidence of Archaic age settlement with possible rodent harvesting is apparent in two well-dated sediment cores collected in northeastern Grenada. At around 3600 BC, large scale burning on the island coincides with severe forest modification including the total elimination of at least two species of palms. The selective, though possibly unintentional, removal of economically valuable palms suggests the influence of a non-human variable into the equation. I propose that the removal of a...


Effects of Atmospheric Events over Marine Ecosystems and Precolumbian Societies in Borikén (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mariela Declet Perez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Climate change, as a social and environmental stressor, has the potential to threaten food security by disrupting the functioning of ecosystems. This stress is particularly enhanced during intense, unexpected events that can trigger disasters. Precolumbian Caribbean societies faced these stressors through time as environmental changes linked to climate change...


Effigy Ceramic Bottle from Green Turtle Cay, Abaco (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert S. Carr. Sandra Riley.

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El Consumo de Plantas en el Caribe Colombiano durante el Formativo Temprano (7000-3000 A.P.): Una Evaluación Paleoetnobotánica de la Subsistencia a partir de Almidones (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Martha Mejia Cano.

En el norte de Colombia, el Formativo Temprano se ha considerado un período transcendental para entender el paso de una economía de caza y recolección a la experimentación con plantas. Nuevos aportes efectuados en los sitios arqueológicos de Puerto Hormiga, Monsú y San Jacinto 1, ubicados en el departamento de Bolívar ha permitido la recuperación e identificación de gránulos de almidón de varias plantas (entre ellas la yuca, el maíz y el ñame) obtenidos del interior de varios fragmentos líticos,...


The Electric Shield: Stopping Thieves & Turning Hearts with New Technologies (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Donny Knowles.

The Bahamas has a long and storied history of strife and adventure on the high seas, likely longer and richer than anyone knows. Our history is being poached; stolen from the ocean floor and shipped off to auction overseas. These aren’t trophies; they are triumphs and graves, gone and forgotten. Entering nautical archaeology as an outsider has shown me what the average Bahamian can do to expel these thieves from the wealth of our waters, and take back what is ours so we can share it with our...


Emerging Materialities and Landscapes of Early Colonial Encounters at LaSoye, Dominica (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Diane Wallman. Mark Hauser. Doug Armstrong. Lennox Honychurch. Irvince Auguiste.

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. Contemporary archaeological research of Indigenous-European interactions in the colonial Caribbean explores themes of Indigenous resilience and agency in the face of encroaching European conquest. This paper presents an overview of ongoing archaeological work at LaSoye, a colonial era European...


Engaging the Present by Uncovering the Past: Community Archaeology and the Legacy of Enslavement, Resistance, and Emancipation, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith Hardy.

This is an abstract from the "To Move Forward We Must Look Back: The Slave Wrecks Project at 10 Years" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2014, the National Park Service, as a partner in the Slave Wrecks Project, has conducted a community archaeology program as part of multiyear effort combining underwater and terrestrial archaeology with public engagement activities. Christiansted National Historic Site, and the Danish West India and Guinea...


Engendering Ballajá: A 1910 Case Study from San Juan, Puerto Rico (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Yuitza Rojas Fernández.

In the northwest corner of the capital city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, formal urban blocks were proposed and constructed in the 19th century in an area known as Ballajá. As part of a larger investigation, documentary research was carried out, and quantitative and qualitative data was analyzed to study the presence of women using the 1910 census. Germane to that investigation, were specific variables such as professions, trades, race, nationality, age and civil status, therefore providing...