Working With Under-Represented Archaeological Heritages of St Croix, USVI

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Folkeliv” and Black Folks’ Lives: Archaeology, History, and Contemporary Black Atlantic Communities", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

This paper will present initial findings from fieldwork on St Croix as part of a Danish-funded, multi-year, heritage project that began in early 2020. When funded, this project was intended to work with the NPS, who have established projects on the island, to examine the impacts and enduring nature of colonial debris in what was Dansk Vestindien. The project was conceptualized in the aftermath of the centenary ‘celebrations’ of the transfer of the islands from Denmark to the USA in 2017. Since 2020, we have navigated a pandemic, the global reach of #BLM, changing interests in the Danish and US heritage sector, and personnel changes that have altered the original research agenda. With fieldwork properly resuming in 2022, this project has evolved to consider a number of under-represented archaeological traces with a strong focus on how the findings are co-produced with Crucians and communicated to the wider public.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• “Folkeliv” and Black Folks’ Lives: Archaeology, History, and Contemporary Black Atlantic Communities   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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