Archaeology and History of Sea People in French West Indies (end 18th – 19th century)
Author(s): Franck (2,3) Bigot; Jean-Sébastien Guibert
Year: 2020
Summary
This is an abstract from the session entitled "From the Bottom Up: Socioeconomic Archaeology of the French Maritime Empire" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
For Colonial period, research in West-Indies History and Archaeology focused to date on naval, economical or risks aspects. Though it is possible and necessary to study maritime history through a socio economic prism in order to access to the relationship to the sea of coastal inhabitants or mariners. The first ones drew subsistence from littoral, the second ones, from their capacity of hard work. By using a sample of maritime archaeological sites (coastal, wreck and port sites) this paper aim to be a reflection on the benefit and limit of historical archaeology to the knowledge of sea people in Lesser Antilles (Guadeloupe Martinique). By paying attention to material culture we aim to examine mariners and coastal people daily life.
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Archaeology and History of Sea People in French West Indies (end 18th – 19th century). Franck (2,3) Bigot, Jean-Sébastien Guibert. 2020 ( tDAR id: 456986)
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Keywords
General
daily life
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Material Culture
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Sea people
Geographic Keywords
Martinique (France)
Temporal Keywords
18th-19th
Spatial Coverage
min long: -61.175; min lat: 14.403 ; max long: -60.861; max lat: 14.877 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 521