At the Frontier of Big Climate, Disaster Capitalism, and Endangered Cultural Heritage in Barbuda, Lesser Antilles
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "At the Frontier of Big Climate, Disaster Capitalism, and Endangered Cultural Heritage in Barbuda, Lesser Antilles" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) of the Caribbean are vulnerable to the effects of climatic change. The damaging impacts of contemporary sea-level rise and increasing hurricane activity have had a significant influence on the region’s physical, economic, and sociocultural landscapes. In 2017, Category 5 Hurricane Irma made a direct hit on the island of Barbuda, of the nation Antigua & Barbuda, which resulted in the evacuation of the island’s entire population and widespread devastation. This symposium focuses on the first year of an NSF IRES international research effort to study current issues in Caribbean archaeology, historical anthropology, geoarchaeology, bioarchaeology, osteobiography, photogrammetry, site management, garbology, and community cultural heritage. Collaborators in this project explore the long durée in a transdisciplinary perspective from the first peopling to the present day. The peer mentorship of junior colleagues is at the core of this endeavor, so as they move into their chosen fields, they are better prepared to address the unprecedented effects of the Anthropocene in a holistic perspective.
Other Keywords
Historic •
Coastal and Island Archaeology •
Cultural Resources and Heritage Management •
Digital Archaeology: Photogrammetry •
Geoarchaeology •
Historical Archaeology •
Climate Change •
Coastal Erosion •
Colonialism •
Coastal Archaeology
Geographic Keywords
Department of Martinique (Country) •
Republic of El Salvador (Country) •
Department of Guadeloupe (Country) •
Cayman Islands (Country) •
Antigua and Barbuda (Country) •
Turks and Caicos Islands (Country) •
Belize (Country) •
Anguilla (Country) •
Republic of Honduras (Country) •
Republic of Haiti (Country)
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- Documents (9)
- Colonial Period Occupations and Historical Archaeology on Barbuda (2024)
- Community-Defined Heritage and Uncertain Futures (2024)
- Fostering Preservation and Public Engagement of a Colonial-Era Site on Barbuda with Photogrammetry (2024)
- Island Garbology: Methodology, Challenges, and Contributions to the Archaeology of Barbuda (2024)
- The Osteobiography of Human Remains from the Seaview and Indian Town Trail Archaeological Sites (2024)
- Overview of a Photogrammetry / Map-Stories Approach to Heritage Management on Barbuda (2024)
- Overview of the Archaeological Work in Barbuda: A 20-Year Retrospective (2024)
- Sea-Level Rise, Climate Change, and the Geoarchaeology of Barbuda: A Systematic Survey of Seaview / Indian Town Trail (2024)
- We Carry It Within Us: Shared Colonial History and Control of Caribbean Cultural Heritage Collections (2024)