Caribbean (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Keegan.

The construction of space usually begins with the georeferencing of physical boundaries. As such, space becomes an external container that affects the structure of it contents. This paper explores the construction of space from the perspective of the individual. It begins by recognizing the minimal distance of face-to-face interactions and expands outward from there. The first step is to reject three-dimensional space and to situate the individual in an n-dimensional space. Production,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ricardo E. Alegria.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only William Keegan.

The Bahama archipelago is the last place colonized in the New World, and the first encountered by Europeans. Previous efforts to explain the arrival of humans followed the stepping-stone model of expansion that began in the Orinoco River drainage of lowland Venezuela. Communities island-hopped through the Lesser Antilles, expanded into the Greater Antilles, and continued their northward migration through the southern Bahamas after crossing the last open water gap between Hispaniola and the Turks...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Louis Allaire.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only André Delpuech.

From the first contacts with the Amerindians, conquerors, voyagers, missionaries and so on have brought back to Europe numerous attributes of the New World: natural curiosities as well as manufactured objects. Various historical sources attest to the presence in France of seventeenth and eighteenth century Amerindian objects from the Lesser Antilles in some cabinets of curiosities. Today, paradoxically, not a single object in contemporary collections is attributed to the Calinago or so called...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaime R. Pagan-Jimenez. Jaime Pagan-Jimenez.

Indigenous people initiated their dispersal toward the Caribbean isles at sometime around 8000 to 7800 years before present. This time framework coincides with the consolidation/aggregation and eventual transference of new dietary suites (domestic plants) to long distances, having been this process one that initiated at least in two different and mutually distant regions of continental America. This presentation explores the feasibility of the ideal free distribution (IFD) and diet breadth (DB)...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sophia Perdikaris. Allison Bain. Sandrine Grouard. Naomi Sykes. Stephan Noel.

Barbuda, the small sister island to Antigua, provides a unique geographically bound island context for the study of human-environmental interactions over the last 6000 years. Today, Barbuda’s national animal is the fallow deer, Dama dama dama, a species that is native to a small area of Anatolia but that has been transported around the world by people. According to historical accounts, fallow deer were imported to Barbuda, from England, by the Codrington family, the island’s primary leaseholders...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arie Boomert.

Although Trinidad is referred to in various myths of the Warao and Arawak of the Orinoco delta and the Guiana coastal zone, only one mythical tradition is known which was documented among the Amerindians formerly living on the island. Explaining the origin of the major asphalt seepage known as the Pitch Lake in southwest Trinidad, this myth appears to be closely related to part of a mythological cycle related by the Lokóno (Arawak) of Guyana and northwest Suriname which narrates the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. W. Purseglove.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Schumacher. Miriam Belmaker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The former Danish West Indies are one of the scant examples of Scandinavian colonialism and the only example of Danish colonialism in the Americas. Although considered latecomers to the region, the Danes maintained almost continuous control of their West Indies from their initial settlement until the islands were sold to the United States in 1917. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jean-Sébastien Guibert. Franck Bigot. Hélène Botcazou.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Ship Construction and Shipwrecks: A Journey into Engineering Successes and Failures (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. After five years of field work on Anémone wreck site, this paper aims to present a multi years excavation project begun in 2015 and funded by DRASSM (French Ministry of Culture), Guadeloupe Région, DMPA (French Ministry of Army). The wreck is definitively identified as the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher A. Kiahtipes. Marie Meranda. Gregg Brooks. Rebekka Larson. Diane Wallman.

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. European colonization of the Caribbean and the imposition of imperialist practices of resource extraction and slave labor is possibly the most significant change in human-environment interactions since the early Holocene. Multi-proxy study of ecological responses to land use during this time is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Chitwood. Dana Bardolph.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents preliminary analysis of paleoethnobotanical data from excavations at a Classic Taino site (AD 1000–1490) located at Cinnamon Bay on St. John, US Virgin Islands. Excavations began in 1992 when it was determined that the site was at risk of being lost to erosion. Until now, there has been no analysis of the paleoethnobotanical samples...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cesare Emiliani.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only John Lawrence. Scott Fitzpatrick. Christina Giovas.

This is an abstract from the "Cross-Cultural Petrographic Studies of Ceramic Traditions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Prehistoric Amerindians in the Eastern Caribbean often used local materials in the manufacturing of ceramics, and in some cases, transported these as they migrated. Given the ubiquity of ceramics in the Caribbean, they are useful in discerning past movements, and spheres of interaction. However, studies of this nature are scarce...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Lawrence. Scott Fitzpatrick. Kathleen Marsaglia.

Native Amerindian groups who inhabited the southern Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean likely used local materials for temper in the manufacturing of pottery, but may have transported pottery once it was produced. To identify potential sources of temper and possible movement of these resources and/or pottery, we conducted petrographic analysis of Pre-Columbian ceramics found on various islands, including Barbados, Mustique, Carriacou, and Union. Each island exhibits distinct geology with sand...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tim S. Mistovich. George F. Tyson. Carlos Solis.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Solis.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Solis.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Oas.

The dynamics of household economies provide an important window into processes of social, economic, and environmental change in plantation settings. This paper examines household food production and consumption activities and the use of local landscapes at Morne Patate to better understand the relationships between daily life, landscape use, and the broader political economic changes that influenced plantation life on Dominica over several generations of occupation. I present the results of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephan T. Lenik.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Folkeliv” and Black Folks’ Lives: Archaeology, History, and Contemporary Black Atlantic Communities", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Sugar was manufactured at Estate Lower Bethlehem Old Works plantation from the mid-eighteenth century, soon after the Danish colony of St. Croix was founded, until the Central Factory closed in 1966. Throughout this period, plantation laborer housing was situated north of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Delle.

The archaeology of the enslaved experience on Caribbean plantations has traditionally focused on life in the plantation village. These spaces, often crowded and providing little privacy, were but one place on the plantation landscape inhabited by enslaved workers. As has long been known, in the British West Indies under slavery, workers were required to grow their own food to supplement the mostly meager rations provided sporadically by plantation managers. The small farms tended by the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natasha Fernandez-Perez. Isabel Rivera-Collazo.

Archaeological studies have demonstrated that the dynamics between plants and people in the Neotropics are central for the understanding of both forests and human societies. However, in the archaeological literature of the Caribbean there is no single analysis listing the range of plants used and for what purposes. Upon this situation, we have undergone the task of reviewing the existing paleobotanical literature from a Pan-Caribbean perspective, and assembling a database. It includes each plant...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Georgia Fox.

The deep history behind what anthropologist Sidney Mintz refers to as the "stimulant or drug foods" reflects collective choices that transformed the socioeconomic fabric of early modern life. The archaeological record can reveal the physical manifestation of such choices through the myriad assemblages of artifacts that bear witness to the adoption of stimulant foods and also the tragic outcomes from the production of these commodities. In this paper, I will discuss my long-term archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Oas. Mark Hauser.

The domestic economies of households occupied by enslaved laborers are an important domain of analysis for understanding the political ecology and environmental legacy of colonial empires. These households occupy an important intersection of environment, political economy, and culture, and provide an opportunity to exploring both top-down and bottom-up processes of environmental and economic change. This paper presents preliminary research onto households from excavations at Morne Petate in...