Proyekto Paisahe Kultural di Kòrsou: The Environmental Legacy of Curaçao’s Cultural Landscapes

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In 2022, the Curaçao Cultural Landscape Project (CCLP) initiated a long-term field investigation on the ecological legacy of Indigenous and European colonial occupation of Curaçao, in the southern Caribbean. Drawing together multi-proxy records from human settlement, resource use, and environmental conditions over ca. 4500 years, this interdisciplinary project seeks to document past human-caused habitat and biodiversity change on this island. Using outcomes of our analyses, we aim to develop sustainability solutions for the present by connecting modern biodiversity to land-use history and providing data for restoration baselines. Here, we report on the findings of the first field season at the Jan Thiel and St. Marie bay landscapes, including results from newly identified sites, C-14 dating, marine sediment coring, geophysical survey, and geoarchaeological and zooarchaeological analyses. Transdisciplinary research such as this allows us to understand the transformation of Curaçao’s landscape and link our work about the past to present and future policy challenges in heritage management and climate change.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37345.0