Archaeological excavations at Schotsenhoek plantation, St. Eustatius, Caribbean Netherlands An early- to mid-eighteenth-century slave settlement at a sugar plantation on the Caribbean’s ‘Historical Gem’ Client NuStar Energy, LP – Statia Terminals Mike McDonald, Director Tumble Down Dick Bay P.O. Box 70 St. Eustatius, Caribbean Netherlands
[email protected] +599 318 2300 Contractor St. Eustatius Center for Archaeological Research DePan House, Lampeweg St. Eustatius, Caribisch Nederland
[email protected] +599 318 0066 Principal Investigator, Author, and Site Director Ruud Stelten MA Managing Archaeologist St. Eustatius Center for Archaeological Research
[email protected] +599 586 0873 Date: 29 July 2013 Table of contents Acknowledgements 1 1. Introduction 2 2. Historical background 3 3. Research methodology 18 4. Results and interpretation 19 5. Conclusion 31 6. Bibliography 33 Appendix I: Site plan and reconstruction drawing Appendix II: Individual structures Appendix III: Artifacts Acknowledgements SECAR would first and foremost like to thank everyone at NuStar Energy L.P., but especially Mike McDonald and Tony Durby, for allowing us to conduct this research on their property. Special thanks are due to dr. Menno Hoogland and prof. dr. Corinne Hofman from the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University, and Suzanne Sanders, who assisted us with the fieldschool. We received help in the field from many people: Gudrun Labiau, Benjamin Hull, Saskia Clausager, Amanda Guzman, Esther Plomp, Olga Schats-van Driessen, Brooke Mealey, Katrien Janin, and the entire EUROTAST research group: Hannes Schroeder, Erna Johannesdottir, Jessica Hendy, Judy Watson, Carlos da Silva Jr., Cesar Fortes Lima, Marcela Sandoval Velasco, Hákon Jónsson, Ryan Espersen, Petr Triska, Anuradha Jagadeesan, Sarah Abel, and Winston Phulgence.