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Haunted salt: how the saltpan of Venezuelan La Tortuga Fed the enslaved and powered the Sugar Revolution, 1638-1781 (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Konrad A. Antczak.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The saltpan of the largely forgotten Venezuelan island of La Tortuga was during the seventeenth and eighteenth century central to the functioning of the British Atlantic economy. I retrace the itineraries of the free solar sea salt that was harvested by Anglo-American seafarers at...


Little Giants of the Seas: Situated Globalities on the Small Islands of the Venezuelan Caribbean, 1638-1880 (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Konrad A. Antczak.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In Small Islands Forgotten: Insular Historical Archaeologies of a Globalizing World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Venezuelan Caribbean, while being an expansive and influential space, has been an understudied region, underrepresented within Caribbean and Atlantic-world historiography. Various small islands in the long chain of archipelagoes and insular territories that dot this maritime region —...