Seas, Dunes, And Rivers: the Case of Oubao Moin as Part of an Indigenous Aquapelago in Puerto Rico. [Mar, Dunas y Ríos: El caso de Oubao Moin como parte del acuapélago indígena en Puerto Rico]

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Entre costas, ríos, lagos y manantiales: Arqueología subacuática en contextos prehispánicos en Latinoamérica y el Caribe" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Sea level change, socio-historical events, and environmental processes transformed the geomorphology of Puerto Rico. These in turn make working on coastal zones particularly challenging because these affect seascape and landscape morphology. This presentation shares new data on indigenous settlement on the north coast of Puerto Rico. The pattern identified consists of habitation areas, close to coastal civic ceremonial centers with maritime infrastructures, separated by areas marked with petroglyphs. The data suggests that submerged and terrestrial landscapes form part of the Indigenous Caribbean Aquapelago: a social unit existing in a location in which the aquatic spaces between and around a group of islands are utilized and navigated in a manner that is fundamentally interconnected with and essential to the social group’s habitation of land and their senses of identity and belonging. Understanding complex seascapes allows us to assess indigenous maritime societies in the Caribbean.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• Entre costas, ríos, lagos y manantiales: Arqueología subacuática en contextos prehispánicos en Latinoamérica y el Caribe

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Abstract Id(s): 52288