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White Marl: community archaeology, memory, and heritage

Central Village, St. Catherine, Jamaica (source place-name, not an ancient self-designation)

Settlement deposits illuminate cooking, craft, and material histories while modern research examines how archaeology affects residents and heritage communities. Highway development and museum history are part of the evidence's survival, not incidental background.

Settlement and living-heritage context Late first to early second millennium CE and early colonial context; modern heritage events separately dated National heritage record, 2016 rescue archaeology account, community-centered heritage research Central Village, St. Catherine, Jamaica; approximate community orientation only, never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, maritime, treaty, sovereignty, or modern national boundary. Not a burial, sacred-place, private-property, or excavation-access location.
Resumo

Comunidades, paisagens e evidências

Paisagens insulares e ligações

The St. Catherine landscape is now inhabited and developed. This community orientation is not an excavation or burial pin. This is an archaeological landscape, not a mapped homeland or jurisdiction.

Organização política e escala comunitária

Archaeological settlement evidence does not establish one government for all Jamaica or determine the authority of modern organizations.

Transformação colonial, património vivo e recepção moderna

JNHT, local residents, and living heritage communities have distinct interests in conservation. The 2023 study considers these relationships without making the atlas a recognition authority. Living heritage relationships require community authority; this profile cannot decide identity, recognition, descent, or membership.

Material evidence Household activities

The heritage record describes pottery, utensils, ornaments, and animal remains.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S1]
Preservation Development and rescue

The 2016 government account describes archaeology associated with highway widening.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S2]
Living heritage Several stakeholders

The 2023 research considers residents, Jamaican Hummingbird Taíno people, and JNHT separately.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S3]
Sequência histórica

Uma cronologia breve e documentada

Estes marcos servem de orientação e não constituem uma história completa.

  1. Local settlement

    The archaeological record documents Indigenous activity; a midden cannot represent all Jamaican communities.

    [S1]

  2. Research history

    Modern work at White Marl became an important episode in Jamaican archaeological research, as reviewed in the heritage study.

    [S3]

  3. Museum establishment

    The heritage record dates establishment of the museum and midden presentation to 1965.

    [S1]

  4. Rescue and community reflection

    Highway-related work was followed by research examining memory, heritage, and current stakeholders.

    [S2] [S3]
Cultura e língua

Alimentação, artesanato, língua, trabalho e crenças

Línguas mencionadas neste perfil

  • Spoken languages are not established by this site's material record

Família linguística: Unresolved for the archaeological context

Domestic materials include food preparation and craft evidence.

Modern infrastructure shapes preservation and research priorities.

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Fontes usadas nesta 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.

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. C3

    Bringing Taíno Peoples Back Into History

    Leiden University, NEXUS1492 · Institutional account of living heritage and Smithsonian exhibition · 2018-08-27

  4. C4

    Caribbean Ties: Connected People, Then and Now

    NEXUS1492, Leiden University and Caribbean partners · Collaborative archaeological outreach publication · 2019

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. S1

    White Marl Taino Midden and Museum

    Jamaica National Heritage Trust · National heritage record; obsolete vanished-race wording is rejected · Undated heritage record; reviewed 2026-10-20

  10. S2

    More Archaeological Information from White Marl

    Garfield L. Angus; Jamaica Information Service · Government account of rescue archaeology · 2016-11-10

  11. S3

    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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Revisión editorial: 20 outubro 2026

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