Risky business: historical archaeology of the Dutch salt enterprise on La Tortuga Island, Venezuela (1624-38)

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• dc.contributor.author Antczak, Andrzej
• dc.contributor.author Antczak, Konrad A.
• dc.contributor.author Antczak, Maria Magdalena
• dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-09T08:37:34Z
• dc.date.available 2022-05-09T08:37:34Z
• dc.date.issued 2015
• dc.description.abstract In the decades of the 1620s and 1630s the Dutch engaged in salt extraction on the island of La Tortuga, Venezuela, erecting a wooden fort, portable cannon emplacements, jetties and semi-industrial solar saltpan production facilities. The relative paucity of the archaeological record juxtaposed with the wealth of detailed documentary data and fieldwork experiences led to the operationalization of the heuristic tool of ‘scapes’. A critical construction of these socially alive portions of the island landscape and seascape demonstrates 1) how north-western European conceptions of the cultural control of nature were embodied in Dutch orderliness and industriousness; 2) how the strategy of maximization of extractive practices and minimization of risk was evidenced in the overall ephemerality of structures; and 3) how these structural imperatives were imbricated in the prose of human life and death that was unfolding from one small-scale event to another on this desolate island.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research has received funding from European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–13) ERC Grant agreement no. 319209, under the direction of Prof. Dr C. L. Hofman.
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• dc.identifier.citation Antczak A, Antczak KA, Antczak MM. Risky business: historical archaeology of the Dutch salt enterprise on La Tortuga Island, Venezuela (1624-38). Post-Medieval Archaeology. 2015;49(2):189-219. DOI: 10.1080/00794236.2015.1124193
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00794236.2015.1124193
• dc.identifier.issn 0079-4236
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/53024
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Taylor & Francis
• dc.relation.ispartof Post-Medieval Archaeology. 2015;49(2):189-219
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/319209
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• dc.subject.other Arqueologia i història -- Veneçuela
• dc.subject.other Salines -- Veneçuela -- XVII
• dc.title Risky business: historical archaeology of the Dutch salt enterprise on La Tortuga Island, Venezuela (1624-38)
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