Virtual lecture #2: Survey and Landscape Archaeology in the Caribbean

Parrhasian Heritage Fdn & ESDIAPOK

This is the 2nd lecture of the Parrhasian Heritage Fdn. & ESDIAPOK virtual lecture series on heritage management by Prof. Krysta Ryzewski.

About the series: In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Parrhasian Heritage
Park Field School, the Parrhasian Heritage Foundation of Tucson in
collaboration with the Association of Heritage Consultants (ESDIAPOK)
in Athens organises a series of virtual lectures to host leading scholars
and professionals from across the globe, specialising in the field of
heritage management. The focus of the series is on the methods and
approaches to protecting the cultural and natural landscapes in the
Mediterranean and the world, their values and surrounding
communities. This webinar is under the auspices of the Department of
History-Archaeology at the University of Patras.About the lecture: Professor Krysta Ryzewski&quot;Survey and Landscape Archaeology in the Caribbean: Resiliency,
Disaster Recovery, and Heritage on the Island of Montserrat&quot;The small Caribbean island of Montserrat is perhaps
most well-known for its active Soufrière Hills volcano, whose periodic
eruptions have devastated two-thirds of the island’s landscape since 1995.
Archaeological evidence recovered by the Survey and Landscape
Archaeology on Montserrat project (SLAM), which I have co-directed since
2010, tells a different story of island life over the past 6,000 years.
Archaeological findings and recent heritage interventions developed in the
wake of the volcanic crisis and previous upheavals reveal the resiliency and
creativity of its inhabitants and how they lived within a chronically
challenging environment beset by periods of colonialism, slavery, conflict,
and threats of natural disasters. Examples include: the St. Patrick’s
festival, an annual week-long event celebrating both the island’s Afro-Irish
history and an unsuccessful uprising by enslaved Montserratians on the
holiday in 1768; the archaeological remains of Potato Hill, the location of
one of the first post-emancipation schools to educate recently freed
laborers; Valentine Ghaut, a site whose archaeological evidence suggests
the continued presence of native Carib inhabitants after European arrival,
and the contemporary remains of a 1980s-era music heritage site at AIR
Studios. Drawing on examples from some of the 58 sites and over 300
landscape features documented by SLAM project archaeologists, this
presentation will focus on how archaeologists are contributing to the
heritage preservation and future-making process that accompanies current
disaster recovery efforts.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Krysta Ryzewski is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Wayne
State University in Detroit, Michigan (USA). She is a historical and
contemporary archaeologist with over 20 years of experience conducting
archaeological research in the Caribbean and United States. Her
scholarship focuses on understanding the social pressures, systemic
inequalities, and environmental changes that accompanied the
development of Caribbean settlements and late modern-postindustrial
North American cities. Her current research includes fieldwork in Detroit,
Montserrat, and St. Croix (USVI); all components of these projects involve
collaborations with local stakeholders. Dr. Ryzewski and her colleagues
have published over a dozen articles on Montserrat, and in 2020 she
co-authored (with John F. Cherry) the first book focused on the island’s
archaeology, “An Archaeological History of Montserrat in the West Indies”
(Oxbow).

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