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

考古勘察，寻找 1700-1900 年多米尼加（东加勒比海）的法国和英国种植园

• 批准号: 0948578
• 负责人: Mark Hauser
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-01-01 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0948578&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Archaeological; Reconnaissance; Locate; French; English

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.

在国家科学基金会的支持下，马克·W·豪瑟（Mark W.拟议的研究是多米尼加（东加勒比海）的一项密集考古调查，旨在识别和记录与从法国到英国帝国控制的转移相关的离散考古组成部分（1763年和1763年之后）。该调查将重点放在多米尼加地区的各种证据，表明与法国定居者相关的早期定居点，并在英国控制下继续占领19世纪。 研究问题是：1）政治界限在塑造思想，人民和事物的运动中的作用，2）在这些政治界限内管理思想，人民和事物多样性的方式，以及3）如何将帝国中心和殖民地的后勤工作链接到帝国的中心和殖民地，从而为定居者的政治和经济网络带来了变化的潜在原因。多米尼加作为边境殖民地是一个有争议的地形，大都会命令和殖民实践之间的差异得到了加剧。研究问题的性质需要在允许识别早期种植园定居点的领域基本数据，并持续职业：a）使用考古策略的组合可以找到与有限数量的人工林相关的结构特征和文化沉积物，并具有1763寄存前和后期的矿床； b）通过考古发掘为这些特征建立年表； c）绘制每个种植园的组织，以建立土地使用的变化范围。具体来说，通过查看空间的组织以及材料中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”。多米尼加人工林定居项目将在理论和实质水平上提供急需的信息。研究的智力优点取决于其在考古对帝国管理殖民地和殖民地管理受试者的方式的能力。 这将是一个更大的项目中的至关重要的第一步，该项目旨在确定大西洋时代帝国（包括西班牙，英国，法国和荷兰）之间的一些共同特征和实质性差异，并在考古文献（Aztec，Inca和Roman）中更常见的范围来贡献众多的范围，从而在范围内造成了广泛的影响。多米尼加殖民历史上的理解很少。 记录种植园定居点所带来的知识的增加将为其他殖民地持有量提供比较数据，并为我们考虑奴隶制和殖民主义的重大修订提供了基础。多米尼加和美国的学生和志愿者将参加该项目，以增强他们的培训，并提高对多米尼加早期殖民历史重要性的了解。这项研究将进一步与当地学者进行国际合作。