Archaeology and Geoinformatics: Case Studies from the Caribbean

Contributors

Contributors Armstrong, Douglas V. (Ph.D.) Douglas V. Armstrong is the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. Recipient of the prestigious Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence award, his academic interests range from historical archaeology, public policy archaeology, archaeology of the African diaspora,ethnohistory,culture contact,and culture change to the prehistoric archaeology of the Americas. He has written extensively on Caribbean archaeology, with the 1990 publication The Old Village and the Great House: An Archaeological and Historical Examination of Drax Hall Plantation, St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica being one of his most seminal works. Conolley, Ivor (M.A.) Ivor Courtney Conolley is currently pursuing an M.Phil. degree at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. He already holds an M.A. in Heritage Studies (UWI). His particular interest is the indigenous peoples of Jamaica. He is a caver and with his combined knowledge of archaeology and caving has, together with the Jamaican Caves Organization as their archaeology resource person, located a number of hitherto unknown cave sites of indigenous peoples. He is an Executive Member of the Archaeological Society of Jamaica, Jamaican Historical Society, and Jamaican Caves Organization. Farmer, Kevin (M.A.) Kevin Farmer is the Curator of History and Archaeology at the Barbados Museum and Historical Society. He holds a Master’s degree in Heritage Studies from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, and is currently pursuing doctoral studies in archaeology at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. 226 / Contributors Gilmore, R. Grant, III (Ph.D.) R. Grant Gilmore III is St. Eustatius Island Archaeologist and Director of the St. Eustatius Center for Archaeological Research (SECAR). His excavation experience includes work on a wide variety of colonial period sites located in Virginia (Williamsburg),Netherlands Antilles (St. Eustatius),United Kingdom (Chichester),and Natchitoches,Louisiana.Dr.Gilmore received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London at the University of London, with his dissertation entitled The Archaeology of New World Slave Societies:A Comparative Analysis with Particular Reference to St. Eustatius , Netherlands Antilles. Hauser, Mark W. (Ph.D.) Mark W. Hauser is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame. He has worked in the Caribbean since the mid-1990s and has had the opportunity to work on archaeological projects in Jamaica, the Virgin Islands,Cuba,Dominica,Guadeloupe,and Martinique.He has published several articles on the development of Caribbean ceramic traditions and their distribution through local economic systems. Klingelhofer, Eric (Ph.D.) Eric Klingelhofer is Professor of History at Mercer University, Macon, Georgia . He has published extensively on his primary research interests, which are Medieval archaeology and material culture, English rural settlement and institutions , and early European colonization. Between 1975 and 1979, he was Senior Archaeologist of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and between 1972 and 1975 he served as Field Archaeologist in Southampton, Winchester, and Warwick in the United Kingdom. Knight, David W. David W. Knight is a freelance cultural resource consultant, historian, and author . He is one of a small group of scholars who in recent years have spearheaded an exploration of the Danish National Archives to bring the rich colonial history of the former Danish West Indies (USVI) into sharper focus. Many of Mr. Knight’s published works address the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, but he has numerous studies relating to the broader Danish colonial experience to his credit. He currently serves as President of the St. John Historical Society. Leech, Roger H. (Ph.D.) Roger H. Leech teaches historical archaeology in the University of Southampton (U.K.) where he is Visiting Professor. He received his M.A. from the Contributors / 227 University of Cambridge and his Ph.D. from the University of Bristol. He was formerly Head of Archaeology for the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England and is a former President of the Society for Post Medieval Archaeology.His principal research interests lie in the historical archaeology and architectural history of the Atlantic world of the fifteenth to twentieth centuries. His many publications include a study of early industrial housing in Frome, Somerset (Early Industrial Housing: The Trinity Area of Frome, Somerset), and, most recently, papers focusing on early modern merchant culture. Lenik, Stephan (M.A.) Stephan Lenik completed his Master’s degree at the University of South Carolina , Columbia, and is presently a doctoral student at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New...