Abstract

The Caribbean Sea was a conduit for human mobility and the exchange of goods and ideas during the whole of its pre-colonial history. The period cal. AD 1000-1800, covering the Late Ceramic Age and early colonial era, represents an archaeologically understudied time during which the Lesser Antilles came under increasing influence from the Greater Antilles and coastal South America and participated in the last phase of indigenous resistance to colonial powers. This article summarizes the results of the Island Network project, supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) in which a multi-disciplinary set of archaeological, archaeometric, geochemical, GIS, and network science methods and techniques have been employed to disentangle this turbulent era in regional and global history. These diverse approaches reveal and then explore multi-layered networks of objects and people and uncover how Lesser Antillean communities were created and transformed through teaching, trade, migration, movement, and exchange of goods and knowledge.

摘要

在整个前殖民历史中，加勒比海是人类流动以及商品和思想交流的通道。期间校准。公元 1000-1800 年，涵盖陶瓷时代晚期和殖民时代早期，代表了一个考古学研究不足的时期，在此期间小安的列斯群岛受到大安的列斯群岛和南美洲沿海地区越来越大的影响，并参与了土著抵抗殖民势力的最后阶段。本文总结了由荷兰科学研究组织 (NWO) 支持的 Island Network 项目的结果，该项目采用了多学科的考古、考古测量、地球化学、GIS 和网络科学方法和技术来解决这一问题。地区和全球历史上的动荡时代。