How These Pots Can Talk: Relevancy and Purpose of Archaeology in the Slave Wrecks Project.
Author(s): Michelle Gray; Meredith Hardy
Year: 2018
Summary
Underneath the well-manicured landscape of Christiansted National Historic Site stood the center of Danish Caribbean commerce, the Danish West India and Guinea Company Warehouse. Through these doors flowed the lifeblood of the Danish colonial experience – sugar and slave. Since 2015, the National Park Service, as partners in the Slave Wrecks Project, has been conducting a community archaeological program that introduces archaeology and heritage management to local students. The goal of this project reaches beyond simple excavation and analysis; it addresses questions of history, identity, ownership of the past, and relevancy. This presentation illustrates the complexities of these issues through the description and discussion of two artifacts recovered from the 18th century midden of this complex.
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How These Pots Can Talk: Relevancy and Purpose of Archaeology in the Slave Wrecks Project.. Michelle Gray, Meredith Hardy. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441504)
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Keywords
General
African-Caribbean
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Slave Wrecks Project
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St. Croix
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
18th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 1031