Archaeological Reconnaissance to Locate French and English Plantations in Dominica (Eastern Caribbean) 1700-1900

在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，马克·W.豪瑟将在多米尼加圣马克教区进行一个考古和民族历史研究的实地季节。拟议的研究是在多米尼加（东加勒比）进行深入的考古调查，以确定和记录与从法国到英国帝国控制（1763年前和1763年后）的转移相关的离散考古组件。调查的重点是多米尼克的一些地区，各种证据表明，这些地区有与法国定居者有关的早期定居点，并在英国控制下继续占领到世纪。 研究的问题是：1）政治边界在塑造思想，人民和事物的运动中的作用，2）在这些政治边界内管理思想，人民和事物的多样性的方式，以及3）连接大都市和帝国殖民地所需的物流如何为定居者的政治和经济网络的变化提供了潜在的原因。多米尼克作为一个边境殖民地，是一个有争议的地区，宗主国的命令和殖民做法之间的差异加剧。研究问题的性质需要在允许识别早期种植园定居点和持续占领的领域的基本数据：A）使用考古学策略的组合，定位与1763年之前和之后的沉积物的有限数量的种植园相关的结构特征和文化沉积物; B）通过考古发掘为这些特征建立年表;以及C）绘制每个种植园的组织图，以确定土地利用的变化范围。特别是通过研究空间的组织和物质遗迹中所代表的经济网络的种类，该项目将研究殖民帝国如何“管理多样性”。多米尼克种植园定居项目将在理论和实质层面提供急需的信息。这项研究的学术价值在于它能够从考古学的角度解决帝国管理殖民地和殖民地管理臣民的方式。 这将是一个更大项目的关键第一步，该项目旨在确定大西洋时代帝国之间的一些共同特征和实质性差异（包括西班牙、英国、法国和荷兰）和考古文献中更常见的帝国（阿兹特克、印加、和罗马）通过对加勒比殖民地的分析。这种高-风险研究的一个重要方面是，它将在多米尼加殖民历史上一个鲜为人知的时期提供重要信息。 通过记录种植园定居点而增加的知识将为其他殖民地提供比较数据，并为我们对奴隶制和殖民主义的审议提供重大修改的基础。多米尼加和美国的学生和志愿者将参加该项目，以加强他们的培训，并增加他们对多米尼加早期殖民历史的重要性的认识。这项研究将促进与当地学者的国际合作。

With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Mark W. Hauser will conduct one field season of archaeological and ethnohistoric research in the Parish of St. Marks, Dominica. The proposed research is an intensive archaeological survey in Dominica (Eastern Caribbean) to identify and record discrete archaeological components associated with transfers from French to British imperial control (pre 1763 and post 1763). The survey will focus on areas of Dominica where different kinds of evidence suggest that there were early settlements associated with French settlers and continued occupation into the nineteenth century under British control. The research questions addressed are: 1) the role of political boundaries in shaping the movement of ideas, peoples and things, 2) the ways in which diversity in ideas, peoples and things is managed within these political boundaries, and 3) how the logistics required to link the metropoles and colonies of empires provided a potential cause for change in the political and economic networks of settlers. Dominica as a frontier colony was a contested terrain where the differences between metropolitan dictates and colonial practices was heightened. The nature of the research questions require basic data in areas that allow the identification of early plantation settlements with continued occupation: A) using a combination of archaeological strategies locate structural features and cultural deposits associated with a limited number of plantations with both pre and post 1763 deposits; B) establish a chronology for these features through archaeological excavation; and C) map the organization of each of the plantations in order to establish the range of variation of land use. Specifically by looking at the organization of space and the kinds of economic networks represented in material remains, this project will examine how colonial empires "administered diversity". The Dominica Plantation Settlement Project will provide much needed information at both theoretical and substantive levels. The intellectual merit of the research rests in its ability to address archaeologically the ways in which empires administer colonies and colonies administer subjects. It will be a crucial first step in a larger project which seeks to identify some of the common characteristics and substantive differences between Atlantic era empires (including Spain, Britain, France and Netherlands) and empires more commonly described in the archaeological literature (Aztec, Inca, and Roman) through an analysis of colonial holdings in the Caribbean.The broader impacts of this high-risk study are that it will contribute significant information during a poorly understood period in colonial Dominican history. The increase in knowledge that comes from documenting plantation settlements will provide comparative data for other colonial holdings and provide the basis for major revisions in our consideration of slavery and colonialism. Dominica and U.S. students and volunteers will participate in the project to enhance their training and increase their knowledge of the importance of Dominica's early colonial history. This research will further international collaboration with local scholars.