Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
1. Introduction: Historical Archaeology in Jamaica
Part I: The Archaeology of the Early Colonial Period
2. Feudalism or Agrarian Capitalism? : The Archaeology of the Early Sixteenth-Century Spanish Sugar Industry
3. Port Royal and Jamaica: Wrought-Iron Hand Tools Recovered as Archaeological Evidence and the Material Culture Mentioned in Probate Inventories ca. 1692
4. Evidence for Port Royal’s British Colonial Merchant Class as Reflected in the New Street Tavern Site Assemblage
Part II: The Archaeology of the Plantation System
5. Reflections on Seville: Rediscovering the African Jamaican Settlements at Seville Plantation, St. Ann’s Bay
6. Maritime Connections in a Plantation economy: Archaeological Investigations of a Colonial Sloop in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica
7. The Habitus of Jamaican Plantation Landscapes
8. Excavating the Roots of Resistance: The Significance of Maroons in Jamaican Archaeology
Part III: The Archaeology of Jamaican Society
9. Of Earth and Clay: Locating Colonial Economies and Local Ceramics
10. Household Market Activities Among Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaican Slaves: an Archaeological Case Study from Two Slave Settlements
11. Assessing the Impacts of Time, Agricultural Cycles, and Demography on the Consumer Activities of Enslaved Men and Women in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica and Virginia
12. Identity and Opportunity in Post-Slavery Jamaica
Epilogue: Explorations in Jamaican Historical Archaeology
References
Contributors
Index