Sub-Surface Patterning at Puerto Real: A 16th Century Town on Haiti's North Coast

Complex landscape biographies: palimpsests of Fort-Liberté, Haiti

“…Most research has been focussed on En Bas Saline, considered as the La Navidad location, and Puerto Real (e.g. Deagan, 1987Deagan, , 1995Ewen, 1992;LeFebvre, 2015;Newsom, 1995;Reitz, 1986;Williams, 1986), which is 30 km to the west of the region that is the subject of this study, and Bayahá (Hamilton & Hodges, 1995). As the earliest known colonial footprints in northern Haiti, those regions are crucial for the understanding of the colonial landscape dynamics through time.…”

Transatlantic Connections in Colonial and Post-colonial Haiti: Archaeometric Evidence for Taches Noires Glazed Tableware Imported from Albissola, Italy to Fort Liberté, Haiti

“…Caribbean historical archaeology offers the opportunity to directly observe the cultural materials of the "invisible" people (Kelly 2013:2-3) and emancipated African diasporic communities, shedding light on their daily lives and of social changes during the colonial and post-colonial period. Several decades of research in the Caribbean on plantation socio-organization, and slave and maroon communities in the Anglophone colonies (e.g., Delle et al 2011;Hauser 2008), Spanish territories (e.g., Arum and Garcia-Arevalo 1986;Deagan and Cruxent 2002;Deagan 1995;Domínguez 1989Domínguez , 1991Ewen 1991;Fairbanks and Marrinan 1983;Reitz 1986;Williams 1986;Woodward 2011), the French West Indies (e.g., Kelly 2002Kelly , 2004Kelly , 2013Jean 2019;Monroe 2017) and the Dutch Caribbean (e.g., Barka 1996;Fricke et al 2020;Gilmore 2006Gilmore , 2011Haviser 2001;Heath 1988Heath , 1999 have begun to produce a solid base for understanding colonial life.…”

“…To date, with the exception of some studies focused on the Spanish period (e.g., Deagan 1995;Ewen 1991;Fairbanks and Marrinan 1983;Reitz 1986;Williams 1986) and the recent works of Joseph S. Jean (2019) on the region of Fort-Liberté and Cameron Monroe (2017) in the area of Milot, little research has been done on Haiti. Historical documents are mainly used to explain the political, social, and economic configurations of Saint-Domingue's colonial landscapes.…”