In Small Islands Forgotten: Insular Historical Archaeologies of a Globalizing World

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?