In Small Islands Forgotten: Insular Historical Archaeologies of a Globalizing World
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2023
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in 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.
While often forgotten and languishing in the shadows of their larger, more celebrated siblings, small islands and the people who inhabited and sailed to them have played crucial roles in early modern and modern history and have important forgotten stories to tell. This symposium aims to for the first time bring together a diverse group of historical archaeologists from around the globe who work on small islands, many of which continue to be overlooked or underrepresented in our disciplinary historiography. Our central concern is: what does the historical archaeology of small islands uniquely contribute to our understanding of large-scale early modern and modern phenomena such as colonialism, capitalism, present gender asymmetries, and globalization and their small-scale articulations and reconfigurations?
Other Keywords
Landscape •
Saint-Pierre et Miquelon •
Trade •
Ecology •
Underwater Archaeology •
Interpretation •
Capitalism •
Missionaries •
Farming •
Diseases
Culture Keywords
Historic
Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview •
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis •
Historic Background Research •
Heritage Management
Temporal Keywords
18th - 19th Century
Geographic Keywords
Caribbean •
South America •
California •
Canary Islands •
Western Pacific •
Oceania •
East Africa •
Antarctica •
Antarctica (State / Territory) •
Antarctica (Continent)
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Antarctic Islands and Capitalism Beyond Maps (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. Antarctica has no native populations and is predominantly presented as wilderness, an untouched natural landscape. However, humans have been there since the South Shetland Islands were first sighted around the 1820s. Historical archaeological studies have connected these remote islands to the...
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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,...
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Between Seascapes and Sandscapes: An Archaeological Approach of the Insular and Coastal Nautical Spaces in the Colombian Caribbean during the 18th and 19th Centuries (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. Interdisciplinary approaches from maritime, coastal, island, nautical and underwater archaeology have been developed in recent years in Colombia, particularly on the island of Tierrabomba in Cartagena de Indias, the islands of Providencia and Santa Catalina and La Guajira Peninsula...
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Exploring the Indigenous Roots of the Canary Islands’ Sugar Industry (Gran Canaria and Tenerife, Spain, 15th-16th Centuries) (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. The Canary Islands were the first European colony in the Atlantic that had an Indigenous population. The colonial written records show that the Indigenous inhabitants of the archipelago built large hydraulic systems to irrigate their farming areas. However, it is still unclear whether and how...
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From Cod Fishing to Bottle Fishing: Saint-Pierre et Miquelon During the Prohibition Era (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. Nothing speaks more of smuggling, and illicit activities than a small forgotten island. Such is the case for Saint-Pierre et Miquelon where contraband was and still is a tradition. In the 19th century (and most probably before that), it is known that French fisherfolks were trading alcohol...
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From Pristine Ecosystem To Monocrop Agriculture: Ecological And Cultural Impacts Of European Colonization In Mauritius. (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. The colonization of Mauritius exemplifies the role played by humans in altering the ecosystems of remote islands. Previously uninhabited, it now has the highest population density of any African nation, and despite scant natural resources, also has one of the continent’s highest GDPs....
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Little Giants of the Seas: Situated Globalities on the Small Islands of the Venezuelan Caribbean, 1638-1880 (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. 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 —...
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On The Margins Of The Indian Sea Trade. (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. Swahili society was formed in the East African coast during the late First Millennium AD, developing a complex urban culture thanks to its partnership in the slave, gold, ivory, and mangrove and ebony wood trade between the Middle and Far East and Eastern Africa. Although the role of...
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Prisons in the Galápagos? Digital Archaeology of the Penal Colony of Isabela (1946-1959) (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. Islands have been used by societies around the world to abandon, exile, or relocate people. In Latin America, an ambiguous sovereign status and the geographical remoteness of islands were used as the perfect place to create violent repressive institutions during the 19th and 20th centuries....
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Retire to the Country: Recent Research at the Highland House Site, Antigua and Barbuda (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. The Caribbean island of Barbuda, under the exclusive control of the Codrington family and their managers for over 200 hundred years, served primarily as a source of provisions for plantations on Antigua. The island is also home to a unique archaeological site: a purpose-built colonial...
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Small Island, Big Mission: Landscapes of Presbyterianism in Aniwa, Vanuatu (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. In November 1866, following a failed attempt at establishing a mission on the neighbouring island of Tanna five years earlier, the Presbyterian missionary John G. Paton landed on the small coral atoll of Aniwa. The inhabitants of this Polynesian Outlier in Southern Vanuatu (formerly New...
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Small Islands Supporting Empires: Farming Landscapes in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, Pivot of Local Food Sovereignty (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. Studying farming landscapes in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon opens the opportunity to emphasize how small islands supported empires. For four centuries, the history of this archipelago is linked to the European colonization of America, and trade networks that allowed European empires to blossom,...
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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...
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Who sewed those buttons? Materials and Technologies in the Making of the Global Self. An Example from Guåham in Månislan Marianas (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. In this paper, I build off of archaeological buttons uncovered at the San Dionisio cemetery (Guåhan, Månislan Marianas) by the Aberigua project. Aberigua investigates the different strategies that 17th-century Jesuit missions implemented in the colonization of the Indigenous CHamoru being....