NEXUS 1492 and partners are organising three symposia at the SAA 2016 meeting in Orlando.
Caribbean Environmental Archaeology: New Perspectives on Human Ecodynamics and Social Relations 

Worldwide, archaeological research increasingly demonstrates the complexity of interactions between human groups and the environment. In the Caribbean, this complexity is underscored by environmental archaeology studies that reveal how past landscapes and seascapes have been shaped at multiple scales by interlinked cultural and ecological systems. The analytic methods of zooarchaeology, archaeobotany, geoarchaeology, and biochemistry have become powerful tools to understand these dimensions of connectivity. This session will examine human social and ecological relations across space and time in the Caribbean based on various environmental and biogeochemical proxy records. Session themes include, but are not limited to, human mobility and interaction, animal translocation, anthropogenic environmental impacts, cultural responses to ecological change, ecosystem and human social resilience, insular adaptation, and cultural diversity across space. The session will highlight the many dynamic lines of inquiry in environmental and biogeochemical archaeology under investigation in the Caribbean, situate Caribbean-based research within broader topics of environmental archaeology and human ecodynamics, and foster dialogue with researchers pursuing related studies in regions elsewhere.

Date: 9 April 2016
Room: Asia 1
Time: 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Chairs: Christina Giovas, Jason Laffoon and Michelle LeFebvre

Below is an overview of the symposia organised by NEXUS 1492 and partners:
8 April: Caribbean Archaeological Collections: History, Museums, and Politics
9 April: New Insights Into the Archaic of the Circum-Caribbean
9 April: Caribbean Environmental Archaeology: New Perspectives on Human Ecodynamics and Social Relations

The official programme and an overview of the abstracts are now available on the website of the SAA.