Last Updated on March 5, 2024, 2:45 AM AST by Anthony Morris
The Nevis Historical Conservation Society has invited the people of the island to a free public talk on the archaeology of Nevis. The event will be hosted on the Top Floor of the Bath Hotel. The attendees of the event will have the opportunity to learn more about the historic and archaeological significance of the island.
The event will be presided over by visiting archaeologists from the United Kingdom, Dr David Barker and Dr Rob Philpott. Both the archaeology experts have a great interest in the island nation.
Dr David Barker is a United Kingdom-based archaeologist who specializes in ceramics. Meanwhile, Dr Rob Philpott is an archaeologist based at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. The archaeology expert also works as a freelance consultant.
The organizers of the event, Nevis Historical Conservation Society has invited the interested people to RSVP soon. They have reasoned that the venue has a limited seating and as such, would be able to host limited participants for a session.
The event will be hosted on Thursday, with the Archaeology experts speaking on several important topics. David’s talk, “Small Sherds of Nevis” will consider the role that ceramic finds play in archaeological research today.
The discussion will focus on, the island of Nevis. It will inform the people about the more common types of ware used in Nevis during the colonial era.
Further the expert will consider where they came from and when. He will also speak briefly about the research project that he is currently undertaking here on Nevis, looking at British-made transfer-printed wares.
Rob’s talk will discuss some of the projects undertaken under the aegis of the Nevis Heritage Project on the island. The focus will be on two sugar plantation sites at Upper Rawlins and Fenton Hill. These sugar plantation sites were dug by Southampton University in the mid 2000s.
The talk will explore how archaeology works with documents, finds and maps to understand the history of plantation sites.
The public talk on the topic is a part of a series of public interactions which are being hosted for history and culture enthusiasts. The series has reached its sixth season and has been received well by the people of the country. The first topic in the talk series was, PUBLIC TALK: THE HISTORY & FUTURE OF THE NEVIS BANJO.
The organizers noted they received overwhelming response for the first public talk. Notably, over 50 people attended the talk, which was more than double the people who RSVP’d.
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