The slave runaway (maroon) landscape was a vast area extending from plantations to distanced hinterlands runaways moved through, lived, and interacted with slave, Amerindian, and non-slaveholding Spanish communities with whom they established alliances, social networks, and trade relationships. I discuss my ongoing research aimed toward locating slave runaway sites in southwestern Dominican Republic beginning with the first recorded African slave revolt in 1521 until the abolition of slavery in 1822. Although the ephemeral archaeological record of slave runaways poses challenges to... Read more about Mapping Slave Runaway Landscapes in Hispaniola, 1521-1822, Theresa Singleton, Syracuse University
Tozzer Library Room 203 21 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Stanley H. Ambrose is a pioneer of archaeological science - his early work on bone chemistry provided important insights into past human diet and past environments, while his more recent geochemical and ethnographic studies are illuminating social networks through the movements of raw materials such as obsidian (a volcanic glass) and red ochre (a pigment).
Red and yellow ochre in archeological sites up to 300 thousand years old is widely considered to be the earliest...
Center for Nanoscale Systems Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering 11 Oxford St Cambridge, MA 02138
Workshop: "FTIR Spectroscopy for the Study of Material Culture"
Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) is a versatile method for chemical analysis of materials. As such, it is a standard technique in the analytical toolkit of any chemist, materials scientist, or conservation scientist. However, in fields related to cultural heritage, many unexploited opportunities remain in which FTIR could help to identify new evidence of past human behavior and to better...
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Ruth Phillips, Canada Research Chair and Professor of Art History, Carleton University, Ottawa; Visiting Professor of Art History, Yale University
Western museums have always been in the business of displaying, provoking, and seeking to satisfy curiosity. The collections of the Peabody and other anthropology museums are, on one level, material deposits of the different forms that “curiosity” has taken through four centuries of European imperial and colonial expansion. Recently, though, postcolonial critiques, Indigenous activism, and emergent settler-colonial discourses...