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Archaeology of Migrations: Integrated Maritime and Land Archaeology to Assess Disease Control in the Indian Ocean (2023)
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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. This paper illustrates the relationships between the indentured laborers diaspora, the progress in maritime technology, and crises caused by the outbreak of diseases of epidemic proportions in the British Indian Ocean colonies. The improvement of shipbuilding made the voyage faster; however,...