Recent Historical-Archaeological Study of the Late-Colonial Period at Lamanai, Belize

Summary

Very few studies have focused on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Northwestern Belize and to this end, the relationships between people, space, and objects operating within this region during the late colonial period are poorly understood. Previous archaeological investigations at Lamanai recovered data that clearly indicated the presence of materials associated with day-to-day behaviors generally linked to late-colonial industrial and residential activities; such as cooking and eating, building maintenance and construction, health and hygiene, and sugar agriculture and production. These data drove the most recent investigations into the material, social, and technological dialectics active at Lamanai, Belize during the nineteenth-century when British colonists established a short-lived sugar plantation at the site. This presentation will outline the overarching problem orientation, on-site work experience, and data recovered during the 2014 summer field season, which focused on late colonial residential life ways at Lamanai, Belize.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• Here be Dragons: Archaeology in North Central Belize.

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