Caribbean Island Worlds: Communities, Voyaging, and Living Heritage
Northern Lesser Antilles · Perfil con revisión de fuentes

Kelbey's Ridge and Saban community networks

The Bottom, Saba (source place-name, not an ancient self-designation)

Separate occupations help explain changing local and inter-island relationships. Comparison must preserve the difference between early and late components rather than assigning one timeless Taíno identity to all Saban archaeology.

Settlement sequence and network context Approximately 400-600 CE at Kelbey's Ridge 1 and fourteenth-century context at Kelbey's Ridge 2 Survey and excavation synthesis, settlement comparison, archaeological network analysis The Bottom, Saba; approximate island town orientation only, never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, maritime, treaty, sovereignty, or modern national boundary. Not a burial, sacred-place, private-property, or excavation-access location.
Resumen

Comunidades, paisajes y evidencias

Paisajes insulares y conexiones

Saba's varied settlement settings belong within island networks. The Bottom provides a public town orientation rather than private ridge or burial coordinates. This is an archaeological landscape, not a mapped homeland or jurisdiction.

Organización política y escala comunitaria

The evidence concerns community and household connections, not a unified Saban state or a capital for neighboring islands.

Transformación colonial, patrimonio vivo y recepción moderna

Archaeological interpretation and island heritage care must remain distinct from modern cultural affiliation. Network analysis depends on the surviving material sample. Living heritage relationships require community authority; this profile cannot decide identity, recognition, descent, or membership.

Sequence Two distinct contexts

The synthesis distinguishes early Kelbey's Ridge 1 from later Kelbey's Ridge 2.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S1]
Connections Model-based comparison

The network study uses the fourteenth-century context to examine material relationships.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S2]
Evidence limits Objects and accounts differ

Archaeology and transmitted histories require different forms of evaluation.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S3]
Secuencia histórica

Una cronología breve y documentada

Estos hitos sirven de orientación y no constituyen una historia completa.

  1. Earlier component

    The archaeological synthesis assigns this broad context to Kelbey's Ridge 1.

    [S1]

  2. Later community context

    Kelbey's Ridge 2 provides the case examined by the later network study.

    [S2]

  3. Recognition and fieldwork

    The synthesis dates discovery and subsequent survey and excavation to modern investigations, not ancient occupation.

    [S1]

  4. Network study and synthesis

    These publications use different scales and methods; neither decides living identity.

    [S2] [S1]
Cultura e idioma

Alimentación, artesanía, lengua, trabajo y creencias

Idiomas mencionados en este perfil

  • Spoken languages are not established by this site's material record

Familia lingüística: Unresolved for the archaeological context

Separate site components require separate chronologies.

Similar objects need not imply centralized political control.

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Fuentes utilizadas en esta página

Prefer Caribbean heritage authorities, Indigenous and community perspectives, accountable excavation projects, original archaeological studies, and institutional collections documentation. Attribute written and oral accounts by date, genre, language, audience, and viewpoint. Historical inventories, tentative nominations, catalog records, and full excavation reports are not interchangeable.

  1. C1

    Caribbean Archaeology and World Heritage Convention (World Heritage Papers 14)

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · Regional archaeological and heritage proceedings; historical inventory, not current inscription status · 2005

  2. C2

    Teaching Indigenous History and Heritage: A Guide for Teachers in the Caribbean

    Eldris Con Aguilar and Corinne L. Hofman; NEXUS1492, Leiden University · Educational research guide; cited for evidence methodology, not reproduced or adapted · 2017

  3. C3

    Bringing Taíno Peoples Back Into History

    Leiden University, NEXUS1492 · Institutional account of living heritage and Smithsonian exhibition · 2018-08-27

  4. C4

    Caribbean Ties: Connected People, Then and Now

    NEXUS1492, Leiden University and Caribbean partners · Collaborative archaeological outreach publication · 2019

  5. C5

    Caribbean encounters: rescue excavations at the early colonial Island Carib site of Argyle, St. Vincent

    Corinne L. Hofman and Menno L. P. Hoogland; Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia, Leiden University · Original archaeological research contribution · 2012

  6. C6

    Late Precolonial Culinary Practices: Starch Analysis on Griddles from the Northern Caribbean

    Andy J. Ciofalo and colleagues; Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory · Original peer-reviewed microbotanical study · 2019

  7. C7

    Lucayan charred wood selection patterns: a comparative study of variability in fragile island ecosystems of the central and northern Bahamas

    Vegetation History and Archaeobotany; Springer Nature · Original peer-reviewed wood-use and chronological study · 2024

  8. C8

    Archaeological History, Memory, and Heritage at the White Marl Site, Central Village, St Catherine Parish, Jamaica

    Caribbean Quarterly; Taylor & Francis · Original community and heritage research · 2023

  9. S1

    Saba's First Inhabitants: A Story of 3300 Years of Amerindian Occupation Prior to European Contact (1800 BC-AD 1492)

    Corinne L. Hofman and Menno L. P. Hoogland; Sidestone Press · Archaeological heritage synthesis · 2016

  10. S2

    Remotely Local: Ego-networks of Late Pre-colonial (AD 1000-1450) Saba, North-eastern Caribbean

    Angus A. A. Mol, Menno L. P. Hoogland and Corinne L. Hofman; Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory · Original archaeological network study · 2015

  11. S3

    Teaching Indigenous History and Heritage: A Guide for Teachers in the Caribbean

    Eldris Con Aguilar and Corinne L. Hofman; NEXUS1492, Leiden University · Educational research guide; cited for evidence methodology, not reproduced or adapted · 2017

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Revisión editorial: 20 octubre 2026

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