El Cabo and the renewal of houses and community
San Rafael del Yuma, eastern Dominican Republic (source place-name, not an ancient self-designation)
Repeated construction and household space place everyday social life at the center of settlement history. Community participation in excavation is distinct from endorsement of this atlas. Architecture can illuminate relationships without making every post pattern an unquestioned house plan.
Communities, landscapes, and the evidence
Island landscapes and connections
The eastern coast connected domestic places and maritime landscapes; the marker represents a nearby town rather than excavation or private property. This is an archaeological landscape, not a mapped homeland or jurisdiction.
Political organization and community scale
The case concerns households and community organization, not a single authority for all eastern Hispaniola.
Colonial transformation, living heritage, and modern reception
The 2005-2008 work involved residents and museum collaboration. Modern interpretation must keep local relationships and archaeological uncertainty visible. Living heritage relationships require community authority; this profile cannot decide identity, recognition, descent, or membership.
The monograph's 800-1504 frame concerns El Cabo, not the full lifespan of a people.
Successive features support interpretations of building, renewal, and domestic space.
Material histories need comparison with situated written and heritage accounts, not automatic ethnic attribution.
A concise, sourced timeline
These milestones are orientation points, not a complete history.
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Monograph sequence begins
The study's broad opening date frames local development, not a pan-island founding event.
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House renewal
Repeated construction preserves changing domestic relationships and settlement space.
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Study's concluding horizon
The monograph's endpoint is an archaeological narrative boundary, not an extinction date.
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Excavation and publication
Collaborative fieldwork preceded publication of the house-focused archaeological monograph.
Food, craft, language, work, and belief
Languages named in this profile
- Spoken languages are not established by this site's material record
Language family: Unresolved for the archaeological context
Building and rebuilding can preserve social histories.
Space, materials, and source comparison answer different questions.
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Sources used for this page
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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Renewing the House: Trajectories of Social Life in the Yucayeque (Community) of El Cabo, Higüey, Dominican Republic, AD 800 to 1504
Alice V. M. Samson; Leiden University, Sidestone Press · Original archaeological doctoral monograph · 2010
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S2
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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S3
Caribbean Ties: Connected People, Then and Now
NEXUS1492, Leiden University and Caribbean partners · Collaborative archaeological outreach publication · 2019
Editorial review: October 20, 2026