Cultural contributions to the island of St. John, United States Virgin Islands : underwater historical archaeology at Cruz Bay /
1733, when a major slave insurrection occurred, and the
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | 1733, when a major slave insurrection occurred, and the 19th centuries. After St. John became a free port in 1764, and Dutch contested the Virgin Islands, realizing their assumed to be located. Permission to work underwater was Caribbean, archaeological data can still be found. century from a practically abandoned bay to a small, Christopher Columbus in November, 1493, on his second voyage. Cruz, Bay went through an economic transition during the 18th demonstrated that in heavily used bays and harbors of the effort was made to find the remains of the historical wharf English controlled its commerce and everyday life. The study excavated. Glass bottles, ceramic pipes and plates were for archaeological data collection involved a reconnaissance, for interisland and transoceanic vessels during the 18th and found in the bottom-most cultural stratum uncovered. The granted for a period of not more than three weeks. The plan inspection, and a site examination phase, which consisted of majority of the artifacts seem to be of English origin from population moved west toward Cruz Bay, a primary anchorage principal port of St. John. Although the island was under settle St. Thomas in 1672. The first permanent Danish colony shallower area, where the historical wharf structures were ships of various nations periodically called at Cruz Bay to St. John, in the Lesser Antilles, were discovered by St. John. Coral Bay was the principal port of St. John until strategic and commercial importance, and Denmark attempted to structure, but it could not be located. Two trenches were subsurface probing and trenching excavations. A systematic the 18th and 19th centuries, which tends to indicate that the direct control of Denmark, it seems to be that the The islands were not revisited by the Spanish for over 57 The United States Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, St. Croix and trade with the sugar and cotton plantations. The area studied was established in 1717 at Coral Bay on the eastern side of was the navigational channel of Cruz Bay, especially the which consisted of a magnetometer survey and visual years. During the seventeenth century, the French, English |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Anthropology". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | x, 153 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. Also available online. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |