Honoring Ancestors in Sacred Space
Subtitle: The Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century African-Bahamian Cemetery
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781683400202
Subjects: Blacks; Cemeteries; Ethnoarchaeology; Excavations (archaeology); African diaspora; Bahamas, antiquities
Description: Throughout life black Africans in the Bahamas worked, voluntarily or not, and possessed material items of various degrees of importance to them and within their culture. St. Matthews was a cemetery in Nassau at the water's edge--or sometimes slightly below. This project emerged from archaeological excavations at this site to identify and recover materials associated with the interred before the area was completely developed. The area has been "collected" for decades--both professionally and by interested citizens, and Dr. Turner, a native Bahamian, coupled the results of her research excavations with the collections and archival material, to provide insight into the lives and deaths of the interred.