Pre-Colonial and Post-Contact Archaeology in Barbados

Introduction: The Past and Present of Archaeology in Barbados
Douglas Armstrong, Alissandra Cummins, Maaike de Waal, Kevin Farmer, Niall Finneran and Matthew Reilly

Section One: Pre-Colonial Archaeology
Barbados Natural Landscapes. Conditions for Pre-colonial Settlement, Site Preservation and Archaeological Fieldwork
Maaike de Waal

Archaic Age Barbados and the Works of Peter Drewett
Scott Fitzpatrick and Maaike de Waal

The Pre-Colonial Pottery of Barbados
Mary Hill Harris

Amerindian Cultural Landscapes in Ceramic Age Barbados
Maaike de Waal

Pre-Colonial Barbados: Rituals, Objects and Use of Space
Quetta Kaye

Section Two: Historical Archaeology
St. Nicholas Abbey: Centering People in Plantation Archaeology in Barbados in the Twenty-First Century
Frederick Smith

Trents Plantation: Small-Farm to a Landscape of Power and Enslavement
Douglas Armstrong

‘A Free Prospect to the Sea’: Framing an Urban Archaeological Biography of Speightstown (St Peter Parish)
Niall Finneran, Alexander Gray and Rachel Lichtenstein

Watch Towers: Surveillance and Control in the Aftermath of the 1816 Barbadian Slave Revolt
Alan Armstrong

The 2009 and 2010 Synagogue Excavations: An Exploration of the Material Culture of the first 100 years of the Nidhe Israel Community
Derek Miller

Section Three: Material Culture and Human Lifeways
‘Are they local or foreign?’: An examination of some Barbadian potteries and market networks
Kevin Farmer, Jeffrey Ferguson and Michael Glasscock

Health and Life Histories of Enslaved Sugar Producers from the Newton Plantation, Barbados: 35 Years of Bioarchaeological Research
Kristrina Shuler, Hannes Schroeder and William D. Stevens

Are they Barbadian? Inferring Identity and Ethnic Affiliation for the Pierhead and Fontabelle Burial Grounds: the Bioarchaeological and Biohistorical Evidence.
Christopher Crain and Kevin Farmer

Sourcing Domestic and Industrial Ceramics from Trents Plantation, Barbados using LA-ICP-MS (Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry)
Lindsay Bloch

Colonial Foodways in Barbados: A Diachronic Study of Faunal Remains from Trent’s Plantation, Seventeenth-Nineteenth centuries
Diane Wallman

Section Four: Issues in Cultural Heritage Management in Barbados in the Twenty-First Century
Collaborative Archaeology in a “Redleg” Tenantry
Matthew Reilly and Ainsley Norris

Young children’s Agency within Barbadian Community Heritage: A Children’s Rights and Sustainable Development Model.
Lucy Willans and Liesje Cole-Pragnell

Participation, Democratization and Digitization. A post-modern Approach to Barbados’ Heritage in the Twenty-First century.
Niall Finneran, Laura Hampden, Alice Lathbury

Of Roots and Routes: Visioning Barbados’ Cultural Heritage through Trails Development
Tara Inniss

Where Are the Shipwrecks? Recent Directions in Maritime Archaeology and Heritage in Barbados
Niall Finneran

Epilogue: The Future of Barbados’ Past.
Douglas Armstrong, Maaike de Waal, Kevin Farmer, Niall Finneran and Matthew Reilly