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

Argyle and Cayo-associated household encounters

Kingstown, Saint Vincent (source place-name, not an ancient self-designation)

Local households used and reshaped objects within early colonial encounters. Material mixing does not prove population replacement. The profile concentrates on the late-sixteenth-century context and labels the early-seventeenth-century extension rather than turning it into a full plantation history.

Household architecture and colonial-encounter context Late sixteenth-early seventeenth century CE; the post-1600 tail is explicit later context Rescue excavation, posthole plans, pottery and European materials, critically compared colonial accounts Kingstown, Saint Vincent; approximate institutional 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.
Resumo

Comunidades, paisagens e evidências

Paisagens insulares e ligações

The eastern Saint Vincent landscape connected river, coast, and households. Kingstown is an institutional orientation, not an airport or excavation destination. This is an archaeological landscape, not a mapped homeland or jurisdiction.

Organização política e escala comunitária

Household clusters and shared spaces suggest local organization, not one centralized Island Carib nation. Colonial observers had particular interests and limited access.

Transformação colonial, património vivo e recepção moderna

Rescue excavation and public interpretation involved the National Trust and local heritage stakeholders. Living Kalinago and Garifuna histories have their own authorities and are not assigned from pottery. Living heritage relationships require community authority; this profile cannot decide identity, recognition, descent, or membership.

Chronology A sequence across 1600

The excavation study places the settlement in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S1]
Households Several structures and phases

Post patterns support interpretations of domestic and shared spaces, not a complete social census.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S1]
Public heritage Interpretation with stakeholders

The outreach account treats reconstruction and local engagement as modern heritage activities, not recovered ancient voices.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S2] [S3]
Sequência histórica

Uma cronologia breve e documentada

Estes marcos servem de orientação e não constituem uma história completa.

  1. Local colonial encounters

    Cayo-associated and European materials are interpreted together, without an automatic replacement narrative.

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  2. Explicit later extension

    This part of the source sequence is later context; accounts written afterward require separate evaluation.

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  3. Rescue excavation

    Airport development prompted investigation with National Trust collaboration.

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  4. Research and public interpretation

    Publication and later outreach present archaeological reconstructions, not community endorsement of this atlas.

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Cultura e língua

Alimentação, artesanato, língua, trabalho e crenças

Línguas mencionadas neste perfil

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

Família linguística: Unresolved for the archaeological context

Imported goods could be incorporated into local practices.

Colonial cannibal accusations require attribution and cannot define a people.

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Fontes usadas nesta 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

    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

  10. S2

    Caribbean Ties: Connected People, Then and Now

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

  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 outubro 2026

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