Compositional Analysis of Afro-Caribbeanware Excavated Archaeologically from the Jackson Wall Manor Site, Grand Cayman

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In this paper I will present the results of Neutron Activation Analysis on 14 low-fired coarse earthenware sherds excavated at the Jackson Wall Manor site in the Newlands neighborhood of Grand Cayman. The present day site contains the remains of a staircase of what was once a large manor. The results of the first season of field work at the Jackson Wall site suggest that the property was occupied consistently from the late 18th/early 19th century to the end of the 19th century. Many residents of Grand Cayman trace their ancestry to John Shearer Jackson, a European colonizer of Grand Cayman who is believed to have arrived in Grand Cayman from England in 1770. The recovery and analysis of the Afro-Caribbean Ware sherds shifts narratives of the site to include enslaved and later free Black Caymanians materially in site interpretation.

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