Collaborations, Research Support, and Dissemination

Thomas Leppard recording the remains of the Montserrat Golf Course clubhouse, which was originally a warehouse for a 17th-century plantation estate (Old Road Bay Plantation). Pyroclastic flows have destroyed much of the site, and now cover the former golf course and adjacent Belham River. Location: Old Towne, Montserrat, BWI.
Thomas Leppard recording the remains of the Montserrat Golf Course clubhouse, which was originally a warehouse for a 17th-century plantation estate (Old Road Bay Plantation). Pyroclastic flows have destroyed much of the site, and now cover the former golf course and adjacent Belham River. Location: Old Towne, Montserrat, BWI.

 

Updates 2013-14

  • SLAM was the first Caribbean archaeology project to be awarded NSF-SPARC funding (February 2014). Funds will be used for technical assistance with LiDAR visualizations of the Centre Hills. Award announcement: Click Here
  • SLAM discovers and excavates an 18th-century gun battery in Carr’s Bay. Despite the best efforts of the Montserrat National Trust and archaeologists, Gun Hill was totally demolished in the fall of 2013. The Montserrat National Trust reported on the battery’s unfortunate demolition in their 2014 Newsletter.

Collaborations

Project Support and Funding

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Dissemination

Publications (Academic Journals & Books)
2013 J.F. Cherry, K. Ryzewski, and L.J. Pecoraro. ‘ “A kinda sacred place”: the rock and roll ruins of AIR Studios, Montserrat.’ In M.C. Beaudry and T.G. Parno (eds.), Archaeologies of Mobilty and Movement, Springer, New York, pp.181-198.

2012 K. Ryzewski and J.F. Cherry. ‘Communities and Archaeology under the Soufrière Hills Volcano on Montserrat, West Indies.’ Journal of Field Archaeology 37(3) (forthcoming 2012).

2012 J.F. Cherry, K. Ryzewski, T.P. Leppard, and E. Bocancea. The earliest phase of settlement in the eastern Caribbean: new evidence from Montserrat. Antiquity, 86(333). http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/cherry333/

2012 J.F. Cherry, K. Ryzewski, and T.P. Leppard. ‘Multi-period landscape survey and site risk assessment on Montserrat, West Indies.’ Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 7(2): 282-302.

In press J.F. Cherry and K. Ryzewski. ‘Montserrat,’ in B.A. Reid and R. G. Gilmore III (eds.), Encyclopedia of Caribbean Archaeology. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press.
In press K. Ryzewski and J.F. Cherry. ‘Archaeology at Risk, Archaeology of Risk: Diachronic Land-Use, Settlement, and Volcanic Activity on Montserrat.’ In B. Bérard (ed.), Tabouï: Proceedings of the 25th Congress of the International Association of Caribbean Archaeologists, Martinique, W.I., July 23-30, 2011. Université des Antilles et de la Guyane.

In press J.F. Cherry, T.P. Leppard, and K. Ryzewski. ‘The prehistory of Montserrat: a synthesis and an update.’ In B. Bérard (ed.), Tabouï: Proceedings of the 25th Congress of the International Association of Caribbean Archaeologists, Martinique, W.I., July 23-30, 2011. Université des Antilles et de la Guyane.

Reports
Ryzewski, Krysta and John F. Cherry
2013 Report on the Survey and Excavations at Potato Hill, Montserrat, May 2013. Report Submitted to the Montserrat National Trust, Olveston, Montserrat, WI.

Cherry, John F. and Krysta Ryzewski
2013 Report on the Survey and Excavations at Gun Hill, Montserrat, May 2013. Report Submitted to the Montserrat National Trust, Olveston, Montserrat, WI.

Ryzewski, Krysta and John F. Cherry
2013 Survey and Landscape Archaeology on Montserrat: Narrative Report on the Third Field Season, May-June – 2012. Report Submitted to the Montserrat National Trust, Olveston, Montserrat, WI.

Bocancea, Emanuela, Krysta Ryzewski, and John F. Cherry
2013 Report on the Survey and Excavations at Valentine Ghaut, Montserrat 2010-2013, May 2013. Report Submitted to the Montserrat National Trust, Olveston, Montserrat, WI.

Ryzewski, K. J.F. Cherry, T. Leppard, and E. Bocancea
2012 Survey and Landscape Archaeology on Montserrat: Narrative Report on the Second Field Season, June-July 2011. Report Submitted to the Montserrat National Trust, Olveston, Montserrat, WI.

Ryzewski, Krysta, John F. Cherry, Thomas P. Leppard, and Emanuela Bocancea
2012 Survey and Landscape Archaeology on Montserrat: Technical Report on the Second Field Season, June-July 2011. Report Submitted to the Montserrat National Trust, Olveston, Montserrat, WI.

Ryzewski, K. and E. Bocancea
2011 Report on the Montserrat National Trust Collections. Submitted to the Montserrat National Trust, Olveston, Montserrat, WI.

Ryzewski, K., J.F. Cherry, T. Leppard, E. Murphy, E.Z. Faro
2010a Survey and Landscape Archaeology on Montserrat: A Report on the Pilot Season, January 2010. Report submitted to the Montserrat National Trust, Olveston, Montserrat, WI.

Ryzewski, K., J.F. Cherry, T. Leppard, and E. Murphy
2010b Report on the Identification and Scientific Analysis of Samples Collected During the January 2010 Field Season of the Survey and Landscape Archaeology on Montserrat (SLAM) Project. Report submitted to the Montserrat National Trust, Olveston, WI.

Ryzewski, K. and J.F. Cherry
2010c Survey and Landscape Archaeology on Montserrat: A Report on the First Field Season, June-July 2010. Report submitted to the Montserrat National Trust, Olveston, Montserrat, WI.

Exhibits
2012 K. Ryzewski, E. Bocancea, D. Henry. “Montserrat’s Archaeological History”. Exhibit on display in the Montserrat National Museum, Little Bay.

Professional Presentations
2014 Ryzewski, Krysta and John F. Cherry ‘Potato Hill, Montserrat: The Role of Multi-Method Survey in Caribbean Historical Archaeology’, Society for Historical Archaeology, Quebec City, Quebec, January (paper)

2013 Cherry, John F., Krysta Ryzewski, Thomas P. Leppard, Emanuela Bocancea Diachronic, Multi-scalar Landscape Archaeology on Montserrat: Opportunities and Challenges, International Association of Caribbean Archaeology (IACA), San Juan, Puerto Rico, July (paper)

2013 Bocancea, Emanuela and Krysta Ryzewski Early Lessons on Archaeology: Teaching Archaeological Stewardship to Young Students on the Caribbean Island of Montserrat, Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, Hawaii, April (paper)
2013 Leppard, Thomas P., John F. Cherry, Krysta Ryzewski, Emanuela Bocancea Recent Discoveries of Archaic- period Lithics on Montserrat, Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, Hawaii, April (paper)

2013 Ryzewski, Krysta, John F. Cherry, and Luke Pecoraro St. Patrick’s Day and Sugar Plantations: Articulating Landscape Archaeology with Montserrat’s Historical Narratives and Cultural Geography, Society for Historical Archaeology, University of Leicester (UK), January (paper)

2012 Ryzewski, Krysta and Laura McAtackney ‘Emerald Isle of the Caribbean’?: insights into the historic Irish presence on Montserrat, Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory (CHAT) group University of York (UK), November (paper)

2012 Ryzewski, Krysta Negotiating Archaeological Heritage in Ruined Spaces and Dangerous Places. Cambridge Heritage Seminar. Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge (UK), April, (paper)

2011 J.F. Cherry, K. Ryzewski, L. Pecoraro – ‘ “A kinda sacred place”: the rock and roll ruins of AIR Studios, Montserrat’ [Paper presented in the session ‘Affordances of Space and Place’ at the Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory 2011 conference, Boston University, November 11-13, 2011]

2011 J.F. Cherry, T. Leppard, K. Ryzewski – ‘The prehistory of Montserrat: a synthesis and an update’ [Paper presented at the 25th Congress of the International Association of Caribbean Archaeologists, Martinique, W.I., July 23-30, 2011]

2011 K. Ryzewski and J.F. Cherry – ‘Lives and Archaeology of Risk: Diachronic Land-Use, Settlement, and Volcanic Activity on Montserrat’ [Paper presented at the 25th Congress of the International Association of Caribbean Archaeologists, Martinique, W.I., July 23-30, 2011]

2011 K. Ryzewski and J.F. Cherry – ‘Paradise lost and found: the places(s) of archaeology on Montserrat, West Indies’ [Paper presented at the Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference Annual Meeting (‘Archaeology Of and In the Contemporary World’), Berkeley, CA, May 2011.]

2011 L. Pecoraro, T. Leppard, J.F. Cherry, K. Ryzewski, E. Murphy – ‘Using a GIS framework in Caribbean landscape archaeology: Survey and Landscape Archaeology on Montserrat, 2010’ [Poster presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Sacramento, CA, April 2011.]

2011 K. Ryzewski – Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, January.

2010 K. Ryzewski, J.F. Cherry, T. Leppard, E. Murphy – ‘ “Trust No Cloud”: Communities and Archaeology under the Soufrière Hills Volcano on Montserrat, West Indies’ [Invited paper presented in the session ‘Not the Usual Suspects: New Directions in Community Archaeology,’ American Anthropological Association meeting, New Orleans, LA, 19 November, 2010]

Pedestrian survey of the Bunkum River Ghaut and surrounding area, in which SLAM discovered multiple prehistoric and historic-period archaeological reatures.
Pedestrian survey of the Bunkum River Ghaut and surrounding area, in which SLAM discovered multiple prehistoric and historic-period archaeological reatures.

 

Acknowledgements
Chief Minister Reuben Meade, Montserrat
Governor Adrian Davis, Montserrat
Montserrat National Trust
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University
Brown University Humanities Funds
Joukowsky Institute Research Funds (J.F. Cherry)
Dr. Lydia Pulsipher, University of Tennessee
Dr. Mary Beaudry, Boston University
National Geographic Society (Grant W86-10)
Institute for Global Irish Studies, UC Dublin
SPARC, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies
Boston University, Department of Archaeology (Equipment Loan).

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