The next webinar in the New Directions in Caribbean Archaeology series will take place on Monday, December 6, 2021 from 3 to 4:15 PM. Diane Wallman (University of South Florida) will present: “Archaeology at the Crossroads: Emerging Materialities of Early Colonial Encounters in the Caribbean.”
This presentation will discuss archaeological explorations of Indigenous-European interactions in the colonial Caribbean. Contemporary research, such as that at the site of LaSoye on the island of Dominica, interrogates the political, economic, and socioecological consequences of European settler colonialism on Indigenous communities and landscapes. This scholarship focuses on local materialities that reflect entanglement within the larger colonial structures, exploring themes of Indigenous resilience and agency in the face of encroaching European conquest.
Diane Wallman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. Her research interests include historical archaeology, zooarchaeology, environmental archaeology, European colonialism, and Atlantic slavery.
This webinar is part of the series New Directions in Caribbean Archaeology.
This talk is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required. Register here.
