ABSTRACT

This chapter analyzes the horizontal distribution of European-made earthenwares recovered from six plantations investigated in Barbados during 1971–1973 (Figure 5.1) (Handler and Lange 1978) and demonstrates that the archaeological patterns observed are similar to those in slave and nonslave contexts on North American sites. Such data contribute to an understanding of the extent to which North American and British Caribbean archaeological patterns of material culture from the period of plantation slavery may be either interchangeable or restricted for interpretive purposes.