Stelten, RuudAntczak, Konrad A.2022-05-092022-05-092023Stelten R, Antczak KA. Life at the salty edge of empire: the maritime cultural landscape at the Orange saltpan on Bonaire, 1821–1960. International Journal of Historical Archaeology. 2023 Jun;27(2):543-73. DOI: 10.1007/s10761-022-00660-91092-7697http://hdl.handle.net/10230/53022The early modern history of the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire has to a large extent been influenced by its most valuable resource: solar salt. Through a multidisciplinary approach combining a landscape study, underwater and terrestrial archaeological surveys, and documentary research, the maritime cultural landscape of Bonaire’s southernmost saltpan is analyzed holistically, revealing new aspects of the lives of the people who lived and toiled there.application/pdfeng© The Author(s) 2022. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10761-022-00660-9SlaverySolar saltMaritime cultural landscapeBonaireinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess