Visions of Colonial Landscapes: Through the Eyes of African Caribbean Communities

Summary

The National Museum of The Bahamas/Antiquities, Monuments and Museum Corporation (AMMC) is the agency designated to identify, manage and conserve tangible and intangible cultural resources throughout The Bahamas. The AMMC is in the process of developing a protocol model that will further enhance the identification and conservation of identified and yet to be identified archaeological sites. An essential component of the development of this process is the inclusion of members of each island community through the implementation of oral histories and ethnographic research. Through the collection of oral histories and assessment of archaeological sites on Cat Island the model developed by AMMC will provide agencies and researchers with a venue that will ensure a comprehensive approach to the identification and conservation of cultural resources throughout the Bahamas. This multi-faceted approach will assist us in developing a better understanding of the variation in the classification of specific sites and other tangle cultural resources as identified by archaeologists, government and non-government agencies, and members of the community and will play in integral part in the development of long term resource management initiatives throughout the Bahamas.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)   •
• British Colonial Landscapes of the Outer Caribbean

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