An Introduction to the Maritime Cultural Landscape of Colonial St. Croix, USVI

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Nuts and Bolts of Ships: The J. Richard Steffy Ship Reconstruction Laboratory and the future of the archaeology of Shipbuilding" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The Caribbean island of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, has a long and complicated past stretching from the pre-Columbian indigenous inhabitants, to its sugar and cotton plantations, and current status as a United States territory. Known as the “Island Under Seven Flags,” St. Croix has, at one point or another, been claimed by seven different Euro-American nations. As an island, St. Croix has an intimate connection to the sea which surrounds it. Maritime cultural landscapes are an anthropological and archaeological approach to the study of the history, culture, and interaction of people and their maritime resources. This paper will discuss the history and maritime cultural landscape of 18th century St. Croix and provide a brief overview of potential nautical archaeology research opportunities.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020   •
• The Nuts and Bolts of Ships: The J. Richard Steffy Ship Reconstruction Laboratory and the future of the archaeology of Shipbuilding

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