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.
Communities, landscapes, and the evidence
Island landscapes and connections
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.
Political organization and community scale
The evidence concerns community and household connections, not a unified Saban state or a capital for neighboring islands.
Colonial transformation, living heritage, and modern reception
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.
The synthesis distinguishes early Kelbey's Ridge 1 from later Kelbey's Ridge 2.
The network study uses the fourteenth-century context to examine material relationships.
Archaeology and transmitted histories require different forms of evaluation.
A concise, sourced timeline
These milestones are orientation points, not a complete history.
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Later community context
Kelbey's Ridge 2 provides the case examined by the later network study.
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Recognition and fieldwork
The synthesis dates discovery and subsequent survey and excavation to modern investigations, not ancient occupation.
Food, craft, language, work, and belief
Languages named in this profile
- Spoken languages are not established by this site's material record
Language family: Unresolved for the archaeological context
Separate site components require separate chronologies.
Similar objects need not imply centralized political control.
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Sources used for this page
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.
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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
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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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Bringing Taíno Peoples Back Into History
Leiden University, NEXUS1492 · Institutional account of living heritage and Smithsonian exhibition · 2018-08-27
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Caribbean Ties: Connected People, Then and Now
NEXUS1492, Leiden University and Caribbean partners · Collaborative archaeological outreach publication · 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Editorial review: October 20, 2026