The Cultural Landscape at Mount Plantation, Barbados: preliminary findings and future directions
Author(s): Jonathan Finch; Douglas Armstrong
Year: 2013
Summary
As part of a wider project in Barbados and the UK, archival research, fieldwalking, and remote sensing have been carried out at Mount Plantation, Barbados. It was selected on its potential for two related research directions. First, to yield data related to the 17C transition to a sugar economy. Second, a study of created and transformed landscapes owned by the Lascelles family in Barbados and Yorkshire (UK). The archaeological investigation of Mount has the potential to yield significant material and landscape data relating to world changing economic and social structures related to the dramatic early 17th century escalation of slavery and agro-industrial production in the British Caribbean. The site also provides an example of shifts through time in plantation organization and labor through the 18th and early 19th centuries.
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The Cultural Landscape at Mount Plantation, Barbados: preliminary findings and future directions. Jonathan Finch, Douglas Armstrong. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428282)
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Keywords
General
Caribbean
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Landscape
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transformations
Geographic Keywords
United Kingdom
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Western Europe
Temporal Keywords
HIstorical, 17C-19C
Spatial Coverage
min long: -8.158; min lat: 49.955 ; max long: 1.749; max lat: 60.722 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 399