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An Examination of Landscape Analysis in Bahamas Plantation Archaeology

Hicks, Katherine E.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1245083263

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2009, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences : Anthropology.
Landscape archaeology has been successfully used in the study of plantation contexts within the Caribbean and United States as a method of comparative analysis across regions and sites, and as a tool for detecting and interpreting the existence of agency, or the actions and resistance, of the slaves who inhabited those sites during the period from the 16 th through 19 th centuries. Within the Bahamas, however, there is a lack in landscape analysis; though surveys of former plantations reveal the standing remains of the built environment, these buildings are used for little more than locating site features and recording construction techniques used during the Loyalist period of 1783 to 1834. In this thesis the history of the Bahamas, its geographic and historical connections to other Caribbean islands and the American mainland, and its participation in the plantation economy of the 16 th to 19 th centuries are used to explain how employing comparative landscape studies in the archaeological analysis of the Bahamian plantation context would benefit the archaeology of the Bahamas archipelago by providing further insight to the role and experiences of the suppressed slave population, and how their traditions persist today within the living inhabitants of the Bahamas.
Kenneth Tankersley, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Sarah Jackson, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
100 p.
Archaeology
plantation archaeology; Bahamas; landscape archaeology

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  • Hicks, K. E. (2009). An Examination of Landscape Analysis in Bahamas Plantation Archaeology [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1245083263

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hicks, Katherine. An Examination of Landscape Analysis in Bahamas Plantation Archaeology. 2009. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1245083263.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hicks, Katherine. "An Examination of Landscape Analysis in Bahamas Plantation Archaeology." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1245083263

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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