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Project Details: Los Buchillones Archaeology Project


Project Description

Parent ProjectThe Archaeology of Climate Change in the Caribbean
Title: Los Buchillones Archaeology Project
Description The Los Buchillones Archaeology Project involves Cuban, Canadian, Mexican and British specialists in archaeological survey, excavation and material analyses from a number of newly identified sites in a case study area in northern Cuba. This case study area includes 2000 sq km in northern Ciego de Avila province and the Sabana-Camaguey archipelago. Fieldwork includes the continuing excavation of a number of archaeological sites and the analysis and classification of the full spectrum of material remains including XRF and SEM analyses of selected exported material. Palaeoenvironmental reconstructions from this case study area are being created through the analysis of a series of marine, lacustrine and terrestrial sediment cores that transect the case study area. Studies of local past human ecodynamics have been developed focusing on the impacts of relative sea level rise, precipitation change and palaeotempestology in this case study area. In 2010, we completed the construction of a new heritage research centre at our central site of Los Buchillones and this centre now employs a full time staff of 8 specialists, 5 technicians and 6 administrative staff all focused on developing this collaborative research.
Keywords:Cuba
Archaeology
Los Buchillones

Sponsors/Funders Arts and Humanities Research Council, Natural Environment Research Council
Country Cuba
Region Caribbean, Cuba, Ciego de Avila
Project Start Year 2002
Project End Year Ongoing

Project Contact

Contact: Jago Cooper
Address Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London
Postcode WC1B 3DG
Email jcooper@britishmuseum.org


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