To Build or Not To Build: An Historical Archaeological Examination of Fort Louise Augusta and the Role of Sovereign Perceptions and Interests in the Construction and Maintenance of Danish West Indian Fortifications

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Colonies, as discontinuous frontiers, may be more or less integrated into the homeland, resulting in distinct fortification patterns across time. The former Danish West Indies (DWI) was one such discontinuous frontier, separated from Copenhagen by more than 7,500 km yet a key part of the Danish economy. By examining changes and continuities in the construction and repair of fortifications across two distinct phases of Danish occupation of the West Indies through the excavation and radiometric dating of construction phases in Fort Louise Augusta, St. Croix, DWI, this paper sheds light on how sovereign perception and the shifting primacy of sovereign and imperium interests in discontinuous frontiers influence colonial fortification.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38942.0