The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology
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Points of contact—islands of interaction Points of contact—islands of interaction
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Forts and ports and colonialism: landscapes of power Forts and ports and colonialism: landscapes of power
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Plantation systems, slavery, and resistance: power and authority versus the people enslaved Plantation systems, slavery, and resistance: power and authority versus the people enslaved
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Material culture studies: regional pottery from the past to the present Material culture studies: regional pottery from the past to the present
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Preserving and interpreting cultural heritage Preserving and interpreting cultural heritage
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References cited References cited
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35 New Directions in Caribbean Historical Archaeology
Get accessDouglas V. Armstrong (Ph.D. UCLA, 1983) is a Professor of Anthropology and holds an endowed Meredith Professorship at Syracuse University. Trained in both prehistory and historical archaeology, his research ranges from studies of plantation slavery in Jamaica to the emergence of free black communities in the Danish West Indies. His current research examines transitions from indenture to enslaved labor with the emergence of a sugar-based capital economy in early seventeenth-century Barbados.
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Published:03 June 2013
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Abstract
Historical archaeology resonates well with efforts to unravel, understand, explain, and interpret the complex cultural heritage of the Caribbean region. The Caribbean is a diverse region created through the combination of insularity and complex trajectories of local cultural expressions. This article presents an overview of historical archaeology as practiced in the islands over the past 50 years. The discussion includes points of contact, colonialism, plantation systems, slavery and resistance, material-culture studies, and preserving and interpreting cultural heritage. As represented by the diversity of prehistoric cultures, early explorers encountered an array of societies, and ecosystems much modified by human use. From the Columbian encounter, the history of every island was based on unique relationships tied to indigenous lifeways and carried forward as unique expressions of an array of colonial polities.
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