1984/12/01 by Merrick Posnansky
Social Sciences · #Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies #Cuban History and Society #Colonialism, slavery, and trade
paper · doi:10.1177/002193478401500204
One recent feature of North American archaeology is the consciousness that there is a need to be more aware of ethnic minorities (Schuyler, 1979). For a long time, there was a dichotomy that excluded other Americans: Anthropological archaeologists studied Native American populations, and historical archaeologists studied the archaeology of White Americans. Archaeologists now are studying different communities, and in the American Southeast interesting studies have been made of plantation archaeology. In the Caribbean there is a belated awareness of the need to study the archaeology of transplanted Africans as well as of Amerindians and Europeans. Nevertheless, there is still an emphasis on sunken galleons, the first European towns, defensive structures, and prominent citizens' houses. Archaeologists who study plantation sites rarely have had exposure to either the countries from which the slaves came or, in many cases, the fullness of