Cape Verde (Other Keyword)
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The geographical location of Cape Verde islands made them one of most important places in early Portuguese exploration of African coast. The first European settlers were favoured by the Portuguese monarchy in the relations with African coast. Since 1472, they were forced to carry out exchange with local goods. This encouraged the development of cotton and sugarcane crops with slaves from the "Guinea Rivers", as was common in other Atlantic islands and the American colonies. The excavations...
Finding Alcatrazes – the lost 15th century settlement on Cape Verde (2013)
The paper will outline recent National Geographic sponsored fieldwork on Cape Verde. The aim of the work was to find and characterise the ’lost’ settlement of Alcatrazes. Textual sources show that Alcatrazes was the centre of the northern captaincy, but it failed and disappears from the records around 1516. Today, it isn't known where exactly the settlement was or why it failed. The aims of the fieldwork are to determine its location and investigating possible reasons for its demise. This, in...
Worldly Tales: Shipwrecks And Atlantic Connections (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archaeology in West Africa", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When was Australia “discovered” by the European? When did the European trade with America become more significant? How did the Industrial Revolution change the world? These are some of the questions that we believe are possible to answer without leaving the beaches of Cape Verde. The Cape Verde archipelago was a very strategic place in the...