Heritage Studies

The project aims to get comprehensive information on stress distribution, internal fissure and defect distribution of iron artefacts,  assess the overall risk situation of iron artefacts, the distribution of risk sites and the assessment of the degree of risk, and make an early warning of the occurrence and development of the disease by combining the data of metal magnetic memory, CT and finite element analysis.

This project investigates when Afro-Indigenous societies emerged in the Caribbean and how the tempo and mode of Creolization varied across ecological and colonial contexts? This inquiry is grounded in environmental archaeology and focuses on the Caribbean—particularly Puerto Rico—as a space of Indigenous-African-European encounters and transformations. The project challenges prevailing narratives of Taíno extinction by investigating the material and ecological traces of Indigenous persistence and Afro-Indigenous ethnogenesis from 1450 to 1815 AD.