Abstract
This paper addresses a database collected and constructed as part of PhD research project on the north-western coast of the Dominican Republic. The PhD was part of the ERC Synergy Grant NEXUS 1492: New World Encounters in a Globalizing World. The database was collected during fieldwork campaigns between 2014 and 2015. Fieldwork consisted of a regional survey, material culture registry and collection, test pit excavation, and processing relevant environmental variables. The archaeological data consists of a record of 102 archaeological sites, the material culture associated with them (lithic, shell and coral objects, shell mollusk species), and the relationship between site location and a set of relevant environmental variables used for statistical analysis. This database is one of the only open access archaeological databases available at the moment in the Caribbean and can be reused by any Caribbean archaeologist working in the Greater Antilles.
Highlights
(1) Overview Context These datasets were collected as part of PhD research conducted on the coastal area of the Montecristi province, included within the project NEXUS 1492: New World Encounters in a Globalising World
This European Research Council (ERC) project aimed to investigate the impacts of colonial encounters in the Caribbean, the nexus of the first interactions between the New and the Old World
The datasets presented here were part of the sub-project “Transformations of Indigenous Caribbean Cultures and Societies across the historical Divide”, which formed the archaeological backbone of NEXUS1492 and aimed to examine transformations of indigenous cultures and societies across the historical divide, bridging the precolonial and colonial era (AD 1000–1800)
Summary
The datasets described here constituted the main data used by the first author for PhD research, with a focus on understanding the indigenous landscape of the northern region of the island of Haytí (re-named as La Española by Columbus and share today by the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and its transformation to the colonial one imposed by the Spanish invaders. An archaeological site was defined in this research as the spatial cluster of evidence of material culture which can be observed in the form of single, clusters, and/or scatters finds, which has no more than 100 m of separation between each other.
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