For many, archaeology means digging up historical artifacts from beneath the ground. But to some, that framework is also violent and colonial. What would it mean to leave ancestors and belongings where they’re found? In this episode, Gabrielle Miller, a PhD student studying African Diaspora Archaeology at the University of Tulsa shares a story about excavations in St. Croix. And Dr. Ayana Flewellen and Dr. Justin Dunnavant discuss how black archaeologists began uncovering sunken slave ships.
(00:02:26) What parts of Archaeology as we know it should be preserved? And what needs to be destroyed?
(00:02:51) Introduction.
(00:03:24) Gabrielle Miller explains their research on the Free Black Community in St. Croix.
(00:07:07) Meet, a ship called the Guerrero.
(00:08:43) How Diving with a Purpose originated.
(00:09:39) Justin Dunnavant and Ayana Flewellen create The Society of Black Archaeologists.
00:12:25) A guide to underwater, or maritime archaeology.
00:16:09) What Black Feminist archaeology is adding to the field.
(00:21:29) How learning from artists can help stretch the academic container.
(00:25:17) Credits.
SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human, is produced by House of Pod and supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. SAPIENS is also part of the American Anthropological Association Podcast Library. This season was created in collaboration with the Indigenous Archaeology Collective and Society of Black Archaeologists, with art by Carla Keaton, and music from Jobii, _91nova, and Justnormal.
This episode was also sponsored by the Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology at the University of California, San Diego and The Imago Mundi Fund at Foundation for the Carolinas.
For more information and transcripts, visit https://www.sapiens.org/.
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Gabrille Miller is a PhD student at the University of Tulsa studying African Diaspora Archaeology. Her current research engages the expressions and legacies of freedom and resistance in an eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century free Black community in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands in collaboration with the heritage practitioners, artisans, historians, and descendants of that community.
Dr. Justin Dunnavant is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA. His current research in the US Virgin Isla
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