Lavoutte: community life and coastal preservation
Gros Islet, Saint Lucia (source place-name, not an ancient self-designation)
Domestic features, midden deposits, and sensitive funerary evidence preserve more than a ceremonial label. Rescue research responded to coastal damage. No human-remains images, precise funerary locations, or genetic ancestry conclusions are included.
Comunidades, paisajes y evidencias
Paisajes insulares y conexiones
Northern Saint Lucia connects coastal resources and island contacts. Gros Islet is a town orientation, not a beach burial or access instruction. This is an archaeological landscape, not a mapped homeland or jurisdiction.
Organización política y escala comunitaria
Local leadership and gathering interpretations require evidence; neither special objects nor burials establish one uniform political community.
Transformación colonial, patrimonio vivo y recepción moderna
Saint Lucian and international partners worked on threatened deposits. Care of ancestors and community interests takes priority over treating remains as display material. Living heritage relationships require community authority; this profile cannot decide identity, recognition, descent, or membership.
The interim and later reports document domestic activity alongside sensitive funerary contexts.
Damage and development shaped the 2009-2010 research priorities.
Heritage education and local participation do not imply unrestricted permission to reproduce cultural material.
Una cronología breve y documentada
Estos hitos sirven de orientación y no constituyen una historia completa.
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Late Ceramic Age context
The research describes a broad occupation frame, not one precisely bounded people.
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Household and funerary activity
Different deposits need distinct interpretation; some calibrated ranges extend beyond a simple 1500 cutoff.
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Multidisciplinary publication
The study combines several evidence types and explains what damaged sites can and cannot reveal.
Alimentación, artesanía, lengua, trabajo y creencias
Idiomas mencionados en este perfil
- Spoken languages are not established by this site's material record
Familia lingüística: Unresolved for the archaeological context
Erosion creates an uneven archive.
Laboratory comparison does not turn ancestors into ethnicity markers.
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Fuentes utilizadas en esta 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.
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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
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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
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C3
Bringing Taíno Peoples Back Into History
Leiden University, NEXUS1492 · Institutional account of living heritage and Smithsonian exhibition · 2018-08-27
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C4
Caribbean Ties: Connected People, Then and Now
NEXUS1492, Leiden University and Caribbean partners · Collaborative archaeological outreach publication · 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Lavoutte, Saint Lucia: Interim Report 2009
Leiden University and Saint Lucia archaeological partners · Original interim field report · 2009
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Life and death at precolumbian Lavoutte, Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles
Corinne L. Hofman and colleagues; Journal of Field Archaeology · Original peer-reviewed rescue archaeology study · 2012 volume; online 2013
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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
Revisión editorial: 20 octubre 2026