ERC Starting Grant · 2024
Alternative Modernities and Everyday Life in the Pre-emancipation Southern Caribbean (c. 1634–1863)
ISLANDLIVES will be the first interdisciplinary historical archaeological project to deploy a broad array of cutting-edge archaeological science techniques to study everyday life at multiple sites across multiple islands during a span of 229 years. The Dutch islands of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire (ABC islands) were unconventional colonies that did not fit the typical European model of plantation-driven modernity incepted in the Caribbean. Rather, they occupied a grey area, thriving on illicit trade with the Spanish mainland. Truly little, however, is known archaeologically about everyday life on the islands. By mobilizing terrestrial and maritime archaeological investigations, archival…
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