In Perpetuity: Memories, Stories, and the Material Culture of the Jackson’s Wall Site, Grand Cayman

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This poster reports on renewed and emergent social networks developed during two field seasons of archaeological research at the Jackson Wall site on Grand Cayman. Research is sponsored by the National Trust for the Cayman Islands, supporting the first modern terrestrial excavations intentionally centering the history of slavery on Grand Cayman. The project developed from a local desire to learn more about the history of enslavement and the post-emancipation occupation of a site known locally as Jackson’s Wall. Few archival documents exist to provide context to the site, with oral history, ethnography, and archaeological fieldwork bringing its history back into public conversation.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 53162