Caribbean (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Solis.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Roberto Valcárcel Rojas.

The construction of the Indian as a colonial category was one of the first resources of domination implemented by the Spaniards in the Antilles. The term with its social, economic and cultural implications served to homogenize and differentiate populations, to eliminate identities of origin and to build a destiny of subordination and disappearance. In Cuba this category was transformed over the last five centuries and adjusted to various historical circumstances. The historical and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Perry Gnivecki. Mary Jane Berman.

There are numerous examples of material and bodily flows (e.g., human transfer, enslavement) between the Lucayans and the Spanish during the period of late fifteenth and early sixteenth century colonial encounters. A variety of indigenous and Spanish items circulated, as relationships were established. These are known from ethnohistoric accounts and archaeological evidence from several different islands and sites located in the Bahama archipelago, including San Salvador, Andros, Long Island,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Menno Hoogland. Corinne Hofman.

During the colonisation processes, vast webs of social relationships emerged between Amerindians, Europeans, and Africans in the Lesser Antilles. The intercultural dynamics that materialized during this period were likely contingent on local and regional networks of peoples, goods and ideas which had developed in the Caribbean over the previous 5,000 years. This paper focusses on the impacts of colonial encounters on indigenous Carib societies by studying transformations in settlement pattern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison Bain.

This is an abstract from the "At the Frontier of Big Climate, Disaster Capitalism, and Endangered Cultural Heritage in Barbuda, Lesser Antilles" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A variety of colonial period structures are scattered across the island of Barbuda. Spanning the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, they include wells, lime kilns, a Martello Tower, as well as the remains of a dozen buildings at the Highland House site, amongst others....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Corinne L. Hofman. Roberto Valcárcel Rojas. Jorge Ulloa Hung.

The indigenous peoples of the Caribbean were the first to have suffered European colonization of the Americas. From the arrival of Columbus in 1492 the insular territories were transformed in a massive slave raiding arena in which the knowledge of so-labelled ‘indios’ was used and manipulated by the Europeans and transferred across the Caribbean Sea. Indigenous peoples were put to work in the goldmines and farms of Hispaniola, Cuba and Puerto Rico or in the pearl fisheries in Cubagua. On the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Courtney Besaw. Tracie Mayfield.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Colonowares are often recovered at colonial period sites in the Americas where peoples of African descent resided, and are low-fired, made from locally sourced clays and flux materials, and can be plain or decorated. Many archaeologists suggest that the practice of making this pottery is an African-based craft, however Indigenous influences (particularly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tessa Murphy.

This paper draws on archival documents held in Dominica, France, and Martinique in order to trace the establishment of a plantation economy that was integral to—yet technically outside the sphere of—French colonial rule in the early modern Americas. Prior to the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1763, European settlement in Dominica was formally prohibited by a series of treaties. Yet surviving notary and Catholic parish records reveal that in the middle decades of the eighteenth century, a number...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christophe Snoeck. Rick Schulting. Michael Pateman. William F. Keegan. Joanna Ostapkowicz.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in the Archaeology of the Bahama Archipelago" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Initial settlement of the Bahamian archipelago is currently thought to have derived from Cuba and/or Hispaniola. The first forays may have been seasonal, with permanent settlement not in evidence until ca. AD 1000. As well as initial settlement, we might expect a continued movement of individuals between the Greater Antilles and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Hernández.

This is an abstract from the "Primary Sources and the Design of Research Projects" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A deeper analysis of the neighborhoods (barrios) of San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico, during the early 1900’s provides a clearer scope of the complexities of population density and work related activities. For instance, Barrio Ballajá, the smallest neighborhood located to the northwest of the walled city, had a population of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelvin Blanco Peña.

This is an abstract from the "Primary Sources and the Design of Research Projects" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research is a case study in which the themes of "pulperías" and "ventorrillos", within the walled city of San Juan Puerto Rico in 1910 and 1920, is approached as a potential line of archaeological research. The main objective is to identify the existence of these commercial loci within the study area through the analysis of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vernon Knight.

The Caribbean holdings of the National Museum of the American Indian and the Anthropology Department of the National Museum of Natural History contain material from historically important early excavations like those of M. R. Harrington in eastern Cuba in 1915 and Herbert W. Krieger in the Dominican Republic in 1928. Moreover, they include the results of early collection efforts by such luminaries as Jesse W. Fewkes and Theodor de Booy, which means that they contain some of the key specimens...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Hanna. Michael Jessamy.

The St. John’s River site is an early Late Ceramic Age settlement on Grenada’s west coast, largely destroyed by the expansion of a public cemetery, stadium, and bridge. The St. George’s Community Archaeology Project (SGCAP) was a summer program developed to engage young people and community members in the investigation and preservation of the remaining areas of the site. During the summers of 2011 and 2012, surface collection, shovel testing, and four excavation pits were implemented. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Striebel MacLean.

Tourism has replaced sugar as the Caribbean’s economic engine. The ruins of sugar mills incorporated into resorts create cultural experiences rooted in romanticized notions of colonialism. Paradoxically the labor structure of this externally driven model replicates the racial, economic, and social divisions of the plantation structure. Promoted as "sustainable," the recent shift to heritage tourism while advantageous to archaeology is rife with the colonizing potential of Eurocentric tourism and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Quaintance.

This is an abstract from the "At the Frontier of Big Climate, Disaster Capitalism, and Endangered Cultural Heritage in Barbuda, Lesser Antilles" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation considers heritage as defined by members of stakeholder communities that have experienced a history of displacement as well as the pressures of disaster capitalism/neoliberal development. It explores the value of community-defined concepts of heritage to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Reese Cook.

Multiple ceramic samples were type identified and analyzed for the use in a regional comparative analysis of enslaved populations. The sampled ceramics were obtained from multiple contexts collected from various Caribbean locations. The comparative analyses clarify social dynamics, prosperity, and sustainability within enslaved populations. Afro-Caribbean, colonial tradewares, and exotics were compared by quantifying frequency and present/absent along with the level of diversity in the local...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaylee M. L. Gaumnitz. Todd M. Ahlman.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From biblical times to the 21st century, leprosy has afflicted populations. Medically and socially, leprosy alters patients’ quality of life. This poster compares two Caribbean island healthcare landscapes in terms of government funding, structural planning, and sheds light on the healthcare of marginalized populations. St. Croix’s leper hospital was established in 1888 by the Danish...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Tichy.

This is an abstract from the "Exploring Globalization and Colonialism through Archaeology and Bioarchaeology: An NSF REU Sponsored Site on the Caribbean’s Golden Rock (Sint Eustatius)" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On the Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius (Statia), there are several cemeteries dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, primarily utilized during a time of colonization and trade by the European colonial powers, Netherlands, Great...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olivia Green. Ashley McKeown. Nicholas Herrmann.

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 research investigates the patterns of skeletal pathology of 15 enslaved individuals in an eighteenth-century cemetery on St. Eustatius. Nine different pathology markers were analyzed from the 15 individuals of St. Eustatius and compared to individuals from the Newton...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elysia Petras. Brandi MacDonald. Stuart Wilson. Frank Roulstone.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper I will present the results of Neutron Activation Analysis on 14 low-fired coarse earthenware sherds excavated at the Jackson Wall Manor site in the Newlands neighborhood of Grand Cayman. The present day site contains the remains of a staircase of what was once a large manor. The results of the first season of field...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elena Sesma.

This is an abstract from the "Reinvent, Reclaim, Redefine: Considerations of "Reuse" in Archaeological Contexts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Farmers and gardeners in the Bahamas have long practiced swidden agriculture to replenish the thin soil layers sitting atop limestone bedrock. These methods recycle the organic materials of the landscape to produce something new and generative. In similar fashion, the historical materials that dot the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley H. McKeown. Alondra Rosario Zayas. Edith L. Collins. Kimberly L. Breyfogle. Nicolle M. Rivera Santos. Amber Vinson. Daisy Linsangan. Eileen Brickell. Kaylee Gaumnitz.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As part of the 2021 National Science Foundation funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates Exploring Globalization Through Archaeology site investigations of the St. Croix Leper Hospital (1888-1954), team members documented over 1200 graves in the Christiansted Cemetery. After identifying the names of hospital residents from census records (1890-1940) and the names of 240 individuals...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathrin Naegele. Silvia Teresita Hernandez Godoy. Yadira Chinique de Armas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of ancient Caribbean communities through archaeogenomic methods has seen an increased interest in recent years. In our study in 2020, we demonstrated that the Archaic Age Communities in the Greater Antilles exhibit a different genetic signal from the Ceramic Age communities in the Greater and Lesser Antilles. Still, we could not add more detail...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Clay. James Delle.

While household artifact analyses contribute a great deal to understanding the enslaved experience in the colonial Caribbean, where possible, landscape studies allow archaeologists to more completely reconstruct past built environments of slavery. Using a landscape approach, this paper investigates the use of space by the enslaved population at Marshall’s Pen, a 19th c. Jamaican coffee estate. Through landscape survey, we can better understand how enslaved men and women actively constructed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paola Schiappacasse.

The archaeological collections crisis we have been facing for the last couple of decades has forced many of us to rethink how to conduct research without adding to the problem. Although the idea that you need to excavate in order to do "archaeology" still permeates the opinions in academia, we have been seeing more research projects that revisit archaeological collections. Therefore, how can we make archaeology students aware of other research possibilities? The archaeological excavations...