African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter, March 2007

This word from Editor Chris Fennell:

The March 2007 Newsletter is now available online at the African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter website

March's newsletter features articles and essays listed below; a compiled list of archaeological fieldschools focusing on African diaspora subjects; news reports and announcements; and book reviews by Kevin C. MacDonald, Carol McDavid, Madia Thomson, and Sylvia I. Bergh.

• From Cambay in India to Barbados in the Caribbean: Two Unique Beads from a Plantation Slave Cemetery, by Jerome S. Handler
• A River of Doubt: Marked Colonoware, Underwater Sampling, and Questions of Inference, by Christopher Espenshade
• Comments on Espenshade's "A River of Doubt: Marked Colonoware, Underwater Sampling, and Questions of Inference," by Leland Ferguson
• Autonomous, but Shackled: A Community Model of Slave Life and its Archaeological Testing, by Amy C. Kowal
• Archeological Perspectives of Palmares: A Maroon Settlement in 17th century Brazil, by Aline Vieira de Carvalho
• Agriculture and Slavery in Prince George's County, Maryland, by Christopher I. Sperling
• Caribs, Maroons, Jacobins, Brigands, and Sugar Barons: The Last Stand of the Black Caribs on St. Vincent, by James L. Sweeney
• "Misterios:" The Making of a Documentary as a Way of Exploring One's Own Faith, by Giovanni Savino
• Oral Tradition and the Slave Trade in Nigeria, Ghana, and Benin, by Alaba Simpson
• Teaching Martin R. Delany's "Blake or the Huts of America," by Traore Moussa

The African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter is published quarterly, in March, June, September, and December, and prints essays, analysis papers, book reviews, project reports, announcements, or news updates . We serve a readership of over 2,000 per Newsletter issue.