The Submerged Precontact Landscape of Saint Croix, USVI

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The advancement of maritime cultural landscapes has grown every year since its inception, but its focus has often been focused on the historic landscape while neglecting the prehistoric landscape. There are however, attempts in rectifying this throughout the world. Research during the summer of 2023 on Saint Croix, USVI, was one such attempt, the results of which are discussed here. Being an island that has been continously occupied for at least 2,500 years, its coastline has a pleathora of precontact sites. Current mapping of these sites have them stopping at the tidelines, however with sea level changes it is likely that many of these sites extend offshore, as well as there being previously undiscovered submerged sites surrounding the islands. Such resources should be considered when discussing the maritime culturtal landscape of the island, and could be used as a reference for other islands in the Carribbean.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
• Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes

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