Mapping Maroon Territory: Implications for Amazonian Archaeology

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Archaeology in 2020: Conventional or Revolutionary?" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

A Participating 3-Dimensional Modeling exercise (P3DM) was conducted along the Suriname River of Suriname, South America. The study sought to better understand the historical and contemporary cultural landscape and identify areas of high cultural-historical value. Over a period of eleven days, a total of sixty-five representatives from ten villages traveled from the village of Adawi to the village of Pikin Slee to collectively represent their perception of their traditional territory as a 3D map (on a scale of 1: 15,000). The map was designed for the specific purpose of enabling the Saramaka Maroon community to play an active role in land use and natural resource planning vis-à-vis government allocation of gold and timber concessions to private sector actors. Moreover, the identification of historic sites enables future archaeological research about ancestral settlements, Maroon migratory patterns, areas of ritual practice and belief, and artifact assemblage type and distribution.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020   •
• Community Archaeology in 2020: Conventional or Revolutionary?

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PaperId(s): 957