Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean
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Afro-Caribbean ware
American Indians
Amerindians
Antigua
archaeology
artifacts
Capitalism
Caribbean
Caribbean heritage
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Catholic church
ceramics
ceremonial complex
Charles Fort
Charlotte Amalie
climate
Colonialism
Dominica
Dutch Caribbean
Early Archaic
Eastern United States
English Caribbean
environment
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excavations
farming
fauna
fishing
free blacks
French Caribbean
French Jesuits
geology
Globalization
Habitation Creve Coeur
habitats
historical archaeology
hunting
Indigenous societies
Jamestown
Kalinagos
Lesser Antilles
Martinique
material culture
Middle Archaic
Middle Woodland
migration
mounds
Native Americans
Netherlands Caribbean
Nevis
Paleoindians
plants
Pleistocene
post-emancipation
pottery
projectile points
public archaeology
settlement
sharecroppers
shell middens
shellfish
sherds
slavery
southeastern archaeology
St. Eustasius
St. Kitts
St. Thomas
subsistence
sugar plantations
trade
violence
warfare
water transportation
West Indies
Woodland period
Product details
- ISBN 9780817320324
- Weight: 577g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Nov 2019
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A new perspective on Caribbean historical archaeology that goes beyond the colonial plantation.
Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean: Contextualizing Sites through Colonialism, Capitalism, and Globalism addresses issues in Caribbean history and historical archaeology such as freedom, frontiers, urbanism, postemancipation life, trade, plantation life, and new heritage. This collection moves beyond plantation archaeology by expanding the knowledge of the diverse Caribbean experiences from the late seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries.
The essays in this volume are grounded in strong research programs and data analysis that incorporate humanistic narratives in their discussions of Amerindian, freedmen, plantation, institutional, military, and urban sites. Sites include a sample of the many different types found across the Caribbean from a variety of colonial contexts that are seldom reported in archaeological research, yet constitute components essential to understanding the full range and depth of Caribbean history.
Contributors examine urban contexts in Nevis and St. John and explore the economic connections between Europeans and enslaved Africans in urban and plantation settings in St. Eustatius. The volume contains a pioneering study of frontier exchange with Amerindians in Dominica and a synthesis of ceramic exchange networks among enslaved Africans in the Leeward Islands. Chapters on military forts in Nevis and St. Kitts call attention to this often-neglected aspect of the Caribbean colonial landscape. Contributors also directly address culture heritage issues relating to community participation and interpretation. On St. Kitts, the legacy of forced confinement of lepers ties into debates of current public health policy. Plantation site studies from Antigua and Martinique are especially relevant because they detail comparisons of French and British patterns of African enslavement and provide insights into how each addressed the social and economic changes that occurred with emancipation.
Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean: Contextualizing Sites through Colonialism, Capitalism, and Globalism addresses issues in Caribbean history and historical archaeology such as freedom, frontiers, urbanism, postemancipation life, trade, plantation life, and new heritage. This collection moves beyond plantation archaeology by expanding the knowledge of the diverse Caribbean experiences from the late seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries.
The essays in this volume are grounded in strong research programs and data analysis that incorporate humanistic narratives in their discussions of Amerindian, freedmen, plantation, institutional, military, and urban sites. Sites include a sample of the many different types found across the Caribbean from a variety of colonial contexts that are seldom reported in archaeological research, yet constitute components essential to understanding the full range and depth of Caribbean history.
Contributors examine urban contexts in Nevis and St. John and explore the economic connections between Europeans and enslaved Africans in urban and plantation settings in St. Eustatius. The volume contains a pioneering study of frontier exchange with Amerindians in Dominica and a synthesis of ceramic exchange networks among enslaved Africans in the Leeward Islands. Chapters on military forts in Nevis and St. Kitts call attention to this often-neglected aspect of the Caribbean colonial landscape. Contributors also directly address culture heritage issues relating to community participation and interpretation. On St. Kitts, the legacy of forced confinement of lepers ties into debates of current public health policy. Plantation site studies from Antigua and Martinique are especially relevant because they detail comparisons of French and British patterns of African enslavement and provide insights into how each addressed the social and economic changes that occurred with emancipation.
Todd M. Ahlman is director of the Center for Archaeological Studies at Texas State University. He is coeditor of TVA Archaeology: Seventy-Five Years of Prehistoric Site Research.
Gerald F. Schroedl is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Tennessee.
Gerald F. Schroedl is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Tennessee.
