(Mis-) Reading Land: Early Portuguese Settlement on Cape Verde
Author(s): Christopher Evans; Marie Louise Sorensen
Year: 2017
Summary
This paper considers the early Portuguese settlement on Santiago Island, Cape Verde. Particularly focussing upon the towns of Cidade Velha and Alcatrazes, their immediate topographic settings clearly contributed to the long-term success of the former and the failure of the latter. Nonetheless, the results of a decade of excavation at Cidade Velha demonstrates how long it took for the colonisers to actually understand the landscape’s environmental dynamics, especially the impact of seasonal flooding.
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(Mis-) Reading Land: Early Portuguese Settlement on Cape Verde. Christopher Evans, Marie Louise Sorensen. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. 2017 ( tDAR id: 430804)
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Keywords
General
Flooding
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Landscape dynamics
Geographic Keywords
AFRICA
Spatial Coverage
min long: -18.809; min lat: -38.823 ; max long: 53.262; max lat: 38.823 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 16778