Reconstructing Early Settlement in the Northern Lesser Antilles while Honestly Accounting for Site Loss

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Coloring Outside the Lines: Re-situating Understandings of the Lifeways of Earliest Peoples of the Circum-Caribbean" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Significant site loss due to sea-level rise and modern development significantly impacts the known and potentially present inventory of archaeological sites attributable to the initial peopling of small islands in the northern Lesser Antilles. Coastlines available for occupation during periods of early settlement are presently submerged portions of vast shallow offshore banks. Increased development associated with tourism and population growth over the last several decades further limits the sampling universe in which we might discover new evidence of early settlement. We face this reality with a handful of sites and a comfortable amount of speculation.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Coloring Outside the Lines: Re-situating Understandings of the Lifeways of Earliest Peoples of the Circum-Caribbean   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 40251.0