John Cherry

Brown University, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Faculty Member

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Susan E. Alcock, John F. Cherry, Side-by-Side Survey: Comparative Regional Studies in the Mediterranean. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2004. Pp. 251; figs. 114, tables 35. ISBN 1-84217-096-1. £45.00

Surveying a Long-Term Settlement on Potato Hill, Montserrat

University Press of Florida eBooks, Nov 15, 2016

This chapter demonstrates the advantages of a survey-centered approach for examining cultural lan... more This chapter demonstrates the advantages of a survey-centered approach for examining cultural landscapes on Montserrat. Our case study focuses on the multi-method survey of the Potato Hill landscape employed during the 2013 field season of the Survey and Landscape Archaeology on Montserrat project. Potato Hill’s artifact assemblage is the largest and among the earliest historic-period collections of artifacts to be recovered on Montserrat from the 49 archaeological sites we have surveyed since 2010. The evidence suggests that Potato Hill was a non-elite settlement occupied by multiple communities and households between the late seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Understandings of Potato Hill’s changing use and inhabitants over the course of its long occupational history are situated within our survey results from the surrounding landscape, especially historic-period sugar plantations and military structures. This case study raises several questions concerning methodological approaches, temporal categories, scales of analysis, and material culture classification in Caribbean historical archaeology.

Archaeology Beyond the Site

Theory and Practice in Mediterranean Archaeology

Under the volcano: field survey on Methana. CHRISTOPHER MEE and HAMISH FORBES (edd.), A ROUGH AND ROCKY PLACE: THE LANDSCAPE AND SETTLEMENT HISTORY OF THE METHANA PENINSULA, GREECE (Liverpool Monographs in Archaeology and Oriental Studies, Liverpool University Press 1997). Pp. ix + 370, 236 figs....

Journal of Roman Archaeology, 1999

Vox POPULI: Landscape archaeology in Mediterranean Europe. Graeme Barker and David Mattingly (series edd.), THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEDITERRANEAN LANDSCAPES (Oxbow Books 1999, 2000). £150/$260 (if ordered as a set). Vol. 1. John Bintliff and Kostas Sbonias (edd.), RECONSTRUCTING PAST POPULATION TRENDS...

Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2002

Life after Sugar: an Archaeology of the First Generation Post-emancipation in St. Peter’s Parish, Montserrat

Society for Historical Archaeology, 2017

“The State of Decay into which the Island Has Fallen”: Education and Social Welfare on Montserrat after emancipation

International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Nov 11, 2018

The social life of the newly created 'laboring classes' in the post-emancipation Caribbean has be... more The social life of the newly created 'laboring classes' in the post-emancipation Caribbean has been relatively unexamined across a number of disciplinary perspectives. This state of affairs can be explained through the dearth of documentary evidence that explicitly details the everyday lives of the newly emancipated (preventing historians from easily reconstructing their experiences) and the continuing focus of archaeologists on the plantation era of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This paper argues for the need to bring together a variety of sources to enable researchers to gain a better understanding of this important, transitional time in Montserratian history. Using evidence gathered from archives in the Caribbean, North America and the British Isles, materials excavated from a previously undocumented structure in the marginal north of the island, and local memories of education on Montserrat, this paper illuminates an almost forgotten aspect of the lives of nineteenth-century laboring classes on the island: the aspiration of education.

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Struggles of a Sugar Society: Surveying Plantation-Era Montserrat, 1650–1850

International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Mar 1, 2015

A major obstacle to understanding Montserrat's sugar industry and the oftencontentious social dyn... more A major obstacle to understanding Montserrat's sugar industry and the oftencontentious social dynamics that accompanied it has been the absence of a comprehensive study of the small Caribbean island's plantation-era cultural landscape. We employ a multi-scalar approach, combining archival research and archaeological survey data, to trace the island's shifting socio-cultural composition and fluctuating sugar industry over the course of two centuries (ca. 1650-1850). Adopting an island-wide perspective on the interpretation of Montserrat's plantation-era remains, we expand the breadth and depth of understandings about the island's sugar society through comparative, multi-sited analyses. Our findings underscore the importance of extending Caribbean plantation studies beyond individual estates.

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Communities and archaeology under the Soufrière Hills Volcano on Montserrat, West Indies

Journal of Field Archaeology, Nov 1, 2012

Abstract The volcanically devastated landscape of Montserrat and its social fabric comprise what ... more Abstract The volcanically devastated landscape of Montserrat and its social fabric comprise what Maria calls a “traumascape”—a site of tragedy and catastrophe that is also a place of coping and resilience. How Montserratians engage with trauma is evident in how they remember their recent and historical pasts, and in how they are reinventing aspects of their heritage in order to sustain a distinctly Montserratian identity for the future. Such a process of coping presents challenges for conducting archaeology in collaboration with the community. In this article, we describe the experiences of a recently established project on the island (Survey and Landscape Archaeology on Montserrat) and discuss the potential for, and the obstacles involved in, developing longer-term, sustainable forms of collaboration between archaeologists and local Montserratian communities when facing the unusual circumstances of volcanic disaster and hazard.

The Cyclades and the Greek Mainland in LC I: The Evidence of the Pottery

American Journal of Archaeology, Jul 1, 1982

Page 1. The Cyclades and the Greek Mainland in LC I: The Evidence of the Pottery* JOHN F. CHERRY ... more

Montserrat

University Press of Florida eBooks, Mar 4, 2014

Costly Signaling and Windmill-Building: Inter-Island Technological Variability on Eighteenth-Century Sugar Estates in the Lesser Antilles

International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Jul 31, 2021

Caribbean sugar mills were powered by water, animals, wind, or steam, yet the evidence indicates ... more Caribbean sugar mills were powered by water, animals, wind, or steam, yet the evidence indicates major differences between islands in terms of which mill type predominated. We suggest that windmills offered few, if any, advantages over animal mills and several serious disadvantages. Why, then, were so many windmills built during the eighteenth century on some of the islands of the eastern Caribbean and so few on others? Here, we draw on Costly Signaling Theory to help explain these patterns. The preference for windmill-building may have had less to do with functional requirements or economic efficiency than with cultural competition, the signaling of membership of the planter class, and the display of power throughout the plantation landscape.

Potato Hill, Montserrat: The Role of Multi-Method Survey in Caribbean Historical Archaeology

Society for Historical Archaeology, 2014

The premise and potential of model-based approaches to island archaeology: A response to Terrell

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, Apr 21, 2021

In a recent paper published in The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, John Terrell (2020)... more

“A Kind of Sacred Place”: The Rock-and-Roll Ruins of AIR Studios, Montserrat

Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology, 2013

Between 1979 and 1989, AIR Studios on the Caribbean island of Montserrat was a premier recording ... more Between 1979 and 1989, AIR Studios on the Caribbean island of Montserrat was a premier recording destination for a galaxy of top rock-and-roll stars. Forced to close by Hurricane Hugo, the property has suffered further damage from the ongoing eruptions of the Soufriere Hills volcano since 1995. Access is now restricted, but it has nonetheless become a virtual and actual place of tourist pilgrimage. In 2010 archaeologists from the Survey and Landscape Archaeology on Montserrat project (SLAM) surveyed the ruins of AIR Studios, carefully recording the spatial layout of the studio, documenting remnant material culture abandoned at the time of the studio’s closure, and excavating ash-covered pavement slabs inscribed by musicians during the studio’s heyday. Further research revealed that certain elements of the studios had been systematically stripped from the premises after 1989 and, in some cases, have since been reincorporated into other buildings across the island.

Landscape Archaeology as Long-Term History: Northern Keos in the Cycladic Islands

Journal of Field Archaeology, 1993

Field Survey and Geochemical Characterization of the Southern Armenian Obsidian Sources

Journal of Field Archaeology, Jun 1, 2010

... Roman numerals indicate obsidian regions as identified by Keller et al. ... Syunik Obsidian S... more

The Ptolemaic Base at Koressos on Keos

The Annual of the British School at Athens, Nov 1, 1991

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The Nemea Valley Archaeological Project a Preliminary Report

Hesperia, Oct 1, 1990

Acknowledgments for assistance are given below under appropriate sections. All illustrations exce... more Acknowledgments for assistance are given below under appropriate sections. All illustrations except 580 JAMES C. WRIGHT ETAL. Melos, Lakonia, Thessaly, and elsewhere.2 These researches established archaeological sequences, defined regional artifact and settlement types, and provided an overview of settlement from prehistoric times on. After World War II a series of extensive, but more systematic, surveys in many areas of the country was conducted by R. Hope Simpson and colleagues.3 Meanwhile a continuing tradition of geographic studies described natural as

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