Holly Norton
In April of this year I defended my dissertation "Estate by Estate: The Landscape of the 1733 St. Jan Slave Rebellion", receiving distinction. My dissertation is an anthropological archaeological study of an eight month slave rebellion in the eighteenth-century Danish West Indies. Using Geographic Information Systems, historical documentary evidence, and archaeological survey, I developed a spatial analysis of the event and the various people involved. My broader research interests include questions related to collective action and collective violence, both historic and modern; the African Diaspora; and the era of European Expansion including issues and experiences surrounding New World contact. I am also interested in how historic events and archaeological sites are interpreted in the present, by and for the public, and how they are then used in political discourse.
Supervisors: Douglas Armstrong
Address: 209 Maxwell Hall
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244
Supervisors: Douglas Armstrong
Address: 209 Maxwell Hall
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244
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slaves may be difficult to locate using traditional methods of archaeological survey. These locations
were intentionally made inconspicuous, were likely kept clean of surface refuse, and
may have been placed in atypical landscape settings. As well, these sites may be small in size
and likely contain only a few durable goods. A typical archaeological survey that combines
screened shovel tests on a 20 m interval with surface survey for structural features is not well
suited to the discovery of Maroon refuge sites. If these important resources are to be discovered,
typical methods should be augmented with a GIS-based consideration of locational factors
and controlled metal-detector survey.
slaves may be difficult to locate using traditional methods of archaeological survey. These locations
were intentionally made inconspicuous, were likely kept clean of surface refuse, and
may have been placed in atypical landscape settings. As well, these sites may be small in size
and likely contain only a few durable goods. A typical archaeological survey that combines
screened shovel tests on a 20 m interval with surface survey for structural features is not well
suited to the discovery of Maroon refuge sites. If these important resources are to be discovered,
typical methods should be augmented with a GIS-based consideration of locational factors
and controlled metal-detector survey.