The archaeology of post-Emancipation periods in the Caribbean (i.e. after c. 1807 in the British Caribbean) remains relatively understudied. The collapse of the industrial-scale sugar plantation systems of the islands in the early 19th century saw a radical re-organisation of social and economic life. A new corpus of consumers was created, eking out a living on the margins of island society as sharecroppers or artisans, but never quite economically or culturally liberated. The archaeological implications for the study of this period, in terms of vernacular housing, material culture and ritual behaviour inter alia should be considerable. A major development within this trajectory sees the emergence, on many islands, of a strong Afro-Caribbean maritime culture focused upon ship building, fishing and whaling. The archaeology of whaling communities, highly distinctive functionally specific settlements, is relatively well understood from the perspective of north America, Australasia and Europe, but less so in the Caribbean. Using two case studies based upon recent excavation and survey work by the author, this paper attempts to shed light on a very distinctive maritime cultural response in the post-Emancipation Caribbean world and one which deserves wider consideration.

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从奴隶到水手：传统加勒比海岸捕鲸的考古学c.1850-2000。巴巴多斯和贝基亚（圣文森特格林纳丁斯）的案例研究

加勒比地区（即不列颠加勒比地区的1807年后）的解放后时期的考古学仍然相对未被研究。该岛工业规模的制糖种植系统在19世纪初崩溃，导致社会和经济生活发生了根本性的重组。创建了一个新的消费者群体，以小农或工匠的身份在岛上社会的边缘谋生，但从未在经济上或文化上得到过解放。从白话房屋，物质文化和仪式行为等方面来看，这一时期的研究对考古学的意义应该是相当大的。在这条轨迹上的一个​​重大发展是，在许多岛屿上出现了以造船，捕鱼和捕鲸为重点的强大的非洲加勒比海海洋文化。捕鲸社区的考古学，从北美，大洋洲和欧洲的角度来看，在功能上各具特色的定居点具有相对鲜明的特色，但在加勒比地区则相对较少。本文以作者最近的发掘和调查工作为基础的两个案例研究，试图阐明在解放后的加勒比海世界中非常独特的海洋文化反应，并且值得广泛考虑。