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

Golden Rock and household-scale island connections

Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius (source place-name, not an ancient self-designation)

Domestic structures and food deposits anchor the site in local work, while nonlocal materials indicate wider connections. Airport development affected preservation. Differences among published date summaries remain visible rather than being flattened into a founding year.

Settlement architecture and exchange context Approximately 230-890 calibrated CE in the jadeitite study; other summaries use broader Ceramic Age ranges Rescue excavation, house features, survey reassessment, material-provenance study Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius; 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.
Resumo

Comunidades, paisagens e evidências

Paisagens insulares e ligações

The island's central plain connected settlement and resources. The map points to Oranjestad, not an airport runway or archaeological access location. This is an archaeological landscape, not a mapped homeland or jurisdiction.

Organização política e escala comunitária

Houses and associated work areas document a settlement, not a capital for Sint Eustatius or the northern archipelago.

Transformação colonial, património vivo e recepção moderna

Rescue work and subsequent survey accounts show the cost of development and uneven survival. Material analysis revises connections without assigning modern ancestry. Living heritage relationships require community authority; this profile cannot decide identity, recognition, descent, or membership.

Chronology A dated local sequence

The 2013 study reports occupation around 230-890 calibrated CE, not an exact foundation year.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S1]
Preservation Development losses

The 2011 survey explains why earlier large-scale rescue documentation matters.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S2]
Regional comparison Neighboring settlements

The Saba synthesis compares island relationships without proving every connection was direct.

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

Uma cronologia breve e documentada

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

  1. Settlement sequence

    Houses, midden deposits, and materials belong to several phases within the reported range.

    [S1]

  2. Rescue excavation

    Investigations recorded settlement features before major airport-related losses.

    [S2]

  3. Survey reassessment

    A later report places Golden Rock within a damaged but connected archaeological landscape.

    [S2]

  4. Material and regional studies

    Jadeitite analysis and a neighboring-island synthesis address different scales of connection.

    [S1] [S3]
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

Local households were active participants in exchange.

Geological provenance is not the same as the route or identity of a carrier.

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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

    Pre-Columbian jadeitite artifacts from the Golden Rock Site, St. Eustatius, Lesser Antilles, with special reference to jadeitite artifacts from Elliot's, Antigua

    A. Garcia-Casco and colleagues; Journal of Archaeological Science · Original peer-reviewed material-provenance research · 2013

  10. S2

    Survey Report: SE-93 and SE-133, NuStar 2011

    Leiden University archaeological project · Original archaeological survey report · 2011

  11. S3

    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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Revisión editorial: 20 outubro 2026

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