Islands of Time (General Sessions)
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2021
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Islands of Time (General Sessions)," at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Other Keywords
Agriculture •
Cultural Resource Management •
Spatial Analysis •
Urban Development •
Foodways •
Contraband •
Landscape •
Identity •
Caribbean •
Frontier
Geographic Keywords
East Asia •
Pacific Islands •
Caribbean •
Northeast US •
Southeastern Caribbean, Northern South America, Latin America
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Cacao and Criollo-ware: Historical Archaeology of Contraband between Curaçao, Bonaire, and Venezuela, 17th–18th Century (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Islands of Time (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the 17th and 18th century, Curaçaoan Sephardim, enslaved Africans, freedpeople, maroons, Amerindians, pardos, and Europeans on Dutch Curaçao and Bonaire and in the Spanish Province of Venezuela created a bustling informal and moral economy centered around prized Venezuelan cacao and vital everyday necessities including simple...
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Disturbed by Treasure Salvage Yet Still Significant: Exploring Manila Galleons Santa Margarita and Nuestra Señora de la Concepción in the Northern Mariana Islands (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Islands of Time (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Of the 59 recorded Manila galleon shipwreck incidents between 1565 and 1815, only seven shipwreck sites have been identified today. Two 17th-century Manila galleons, Santa Margarita and Nuestra Señora de la Concepción (Concepción), are in the Northern Mariana Islands. Both sites, however, have been impacted by post-wrecking activities of...
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Island Improvement: Cultivating Change in the Eastern Frontier Landscape of Deer Isle, Maine (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Islands of Time (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological studies have long highlighted rapid and radical human transformation of island ecosystems through colonization. Given their generally more limited biodiversity and size, the impact of human activity is often easier to discern on islands than on the mainland. In this paper, I examine human interaction with the island ecosystem...
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Monitoring on Main Street: Archaeological Monitoring in the Charlotte Amalie Historic District in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Islands of Time (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From 2016 to 2019, archaeological monitoring was performed within the Charlotte Amalie Historic District in conjunction with the Main Street Enhancement Project, an infrastructural project in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. Extended monitoring and data recovery resulted in the discovery of a range of features and intact deposits associated...
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Ornaments as Indicators of Social Changes in Northeastern Taiwan before and after the European Colonial Period (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Islands of Time (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The European expansion to the east in the 16th century led to many places becoming trading centers or European colonies, where imperial powers often caused substantial transformations of Indigenous societies. However, direct European colonial rule was rare and limited in many parts of East Asia. Long-lasting indirect impacts on Indigenous...