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Small islands, big expectations: the role of Isla de Cabras in the defense of San Juan, Puerto Rico. (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. Isla de Cabras is a small promontory located at the entrance to San Juan Bay, in Puerto Rico. Human activity has been traced to pre-European contact periods but it is after 1600 that it played an important role in defending against military and sanitary enemies. This presentation will...