Introduction
Archaeologists have only recently begun to identify their research as part of Atlantic studies (see Kelso 2010) despite the Atlantic World being a central focus of the subfield of historical archaeology since its inception. This being the case, the research carried out by archaeologists of the Atlantic World has been, and continues to be categorized under a number of studies falling within several discrete subfields, such as colonial, indigenous, contact era, African Diaspora, New World, and a host of other “archaeologies,” within the larger field of historical archaeology in the Americas, parts of Western Europe, and West and Southern Africa. Because a specific “Archaeology of the Atlantic World” was a distinct research focus in the early years of historical archaeology, defining it now requires an examination of a number of disparate research agendas.
These early explorations were conducted at sites such as Jamestown and Williamsburg, known and memorialized for their...
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Gijanto, L. (2014). Atlantic World: Historical Archaeology. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1766
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