Maaike De Waal
Maaike de Waal is assistant professor and head of the Field Research Education Centre, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. She specialised in Island and Coastal Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Applied Archaeology, Archaeological Survey, Caribbean Archaeology and Ceramics. She graduated in 1996 with two MA degrees at Leiden University (“ Archaeology and Culture History of the America’s” and “Prehistory of North-Western Europe”). She completed a PhD in Caribbean Archaeology at the same university (2006). Her dissertation was based on a four-year project she designed and which was granted by the Leiden Faculty of Archaeology. Subsequently, as archaeologist at RAAP Archeologisch Adviesbureau in Leiden, de Waal was responsible for several surveying, auger testing and test excavation projects at prehistoric, Roman, Early and Late Medieval and sub-recent sites in the Netherlands. From 2008 – 2010, as lecturer in archaeology at the University of the West Indies in Barbados, she was responsible for the creation of an archaeology minor in the Department of History and Philosophy. Later in 2010 she worked as lecturer in archaeology at Saxion Next University of Applied Sciences in Deventer (the Netherlands). From 2010 onwards, de Waal is co-owner of ARGEOgraph, an archaeological company that offers archaeological and geodetic products and services for archaeological applications in the Netherlands and in the Caribbean.
De Waal is registered in the Dutch Actor Register for Archaeologists as senior-KNA-archaeologist and senior-KNA-prospector (registration number 85424021). (ORCID 0000-0002-0693-7254).
De Waal is registered in the Dutch Actor Register for Archaeologists as senior-KNA-archaeologist and senior-KNA-prospector (registration number 85424021). (ORCID 0000-0002-0693-7254).
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of interaction among people and their complex, historically
multi-layered, culturally diverse living environment. Therefore,
various interests, needs, and values affect these dynamics
of interaction and urban change, which bring challenges
and opportunities for the development of cities. Particularly,
when urban development deals with such complex living
environment and the management and conservation of
both listed and non-listed heritage – as in the case of World
Heritage cities – a variety of public and private, and global and
local stakeholders are affected by processes of change.
Inclusive approaches in the negotiation of these changes that
involve all these actors is increasingly advocated for a more
sustainable urban development. In the past three decades, the
emergence of the so-called living heritage approach promotes
the empowerment of those communities, groups, and
individuals that keep heritage alive in participating in decisionmaking
over the management of urban developments, and
heritage management and conservation that affect them.
The preservation of their continuous relationship with their
heritage is considered key to fostering the mutual benefit of
cities, heritage, and society. While research worldwide offers
examples of best practices, the implementation of these
approaches still faces many barriers and new challenges.
This book aims to explore how (World) Heritage Cities are
dealing with the preservation of their living heritage, what
is needed for its effective management, what approaches
are adopted, and what challenges and opportunities are
encountered. Results offer an overview of current practices,
which also include some of the first testimonies of their
evolution in the time of a global pandemic (COVID-19), that
can inform future research and urban strategies.
a World Heritage Site. This new status came with a wide range of expectations about
positive effects for the site as well for the country and it’s society. This chapter investigates,
on the basis of an analysis of literature as well as traditional (newspapers) and social
media (Facebook), one of these: the expectation that site conservation would improve.
After analyzing challenges and successes with regards to site conservation, the author
concludes that the expectations have not been fully met during the past ten years. The
chapter identifies a number of underlying reasons for both challenges and successes and
concludes by formulating some suggestions for the near future.
Synagogue grounds, fragments of pre-colonial Amerindian pottery were
discovered. They are testimonies of pre-colonial use of this area by the
original Amerindian inhabitants of Barbados, prior to 1654. The precolonial artifacts are the object of this study. Even though few in number and not the focus of investigation during the excavation programme, analysis of the artifacts indicates that information can be collected about pre-colonial Amerindian special activity use of the location where later the Nidhe Israel synagogue was built. The excavations revealed the presence of a fresh water spring, which played an important role at the synagogue grounds and which previously had also been used by Amerindian inhabitants. This discovery also indicates the importance of studying pre-colonial remains that are found during investigations of historic locations.
In: De Waal, M.S., Finneran, N., Reilly, M.C., Armstrong, D.V. and Farmer, K. (eds) 2019: Pre-Colonial and Post-Contact Archaeology in Barbados. Past, Present, and Future Research Directions, Sidestone Press (Leiden), pp. 99-114.
In: De Waal, M.S., Finneran, N., Reilly, M.C., Armstrong, D.V. and Farmer, K. (eds) 2019: Pre-Colonial and Post-Contact Archaeology in Barbados. Past, Present, and Future Research Directions, Sidestone Press (Leiden), pp. 43-60.
of interaction among people and their complex, historically
multi-layered, culturally diverse living environment. Therefore,
various interests, needs, and values affect these dynamics
of interaction and urban change, which bring challenges
and opportunities for the development of cities. Particularly,
when urban development deals with such complex living
environment and the management and conservation of
both listed and non-listed heritage – as in the case of World
Heritage cities – a variety of public and private, and global and
local stakeholders are affected by processes of change.
Inclusive approaches in the negotiation of these changes that
involve all these actors is increasingly advocated for a more
sustainable urban development. In the past three decades, the
emergence of the so-called living heritage approach promotes
the empowerment of those communities, groups, and
individuals that keep heritage alive in participating in decisionmaking
over the management of urban developments, and
heritage management and conservation that affect them.
The preservation of their continuous relationship with their
heritage is considered key to fostering the mutual benefit of
cities, heritage, and society. While research worldwide offers
examples of best practices, the implementation of these
approaches still faces many barriers and new challenges.
This book aims to explore how (World) Heritage Cities are
dealing with the preservation of their living heritage, what
is needed for its effective management, what approaches
are adopted, and what challenges and opportunities are
encountered. Results offer an overview of current practices,
which also include some of the first testimonies of their
evolution in the time of a global pandemic (COVID-19), that
can inform future research and urban strategies.
a World Heritage Site. This new status came with a wide range of expectations about
positive effects for the site as well for the country and it’s society. This chapter investigates,
on the basis of an analysis of literature as well as traditional (newspapers) and social
media (Facebook), one of these: the expectation that site conservation would improve.
After analyzing challenges and successes with regards to site conservation, the author
concludes that the expectations have not been fully met during the past ten years. The
chapter identifies a number of underlying reasons for both challenges and successes and
concludes by formulating some suggestions for the near future.
Synagogue grounds, fragments of pre-colonial Amerindian pottery were
discovered. They are testimonies of pre-colonial use of this area by the
original Amerindian inhabitants of Barbados, prior to 1654. The precolonial artifacts are the object of this study. Even though few in number and not the focus of investigation during the excavation programme, analysis of the artifacts indicates that information can be collected about pre-colonial Amerindian special activity use of the location where later the Nidhe Israel synagogue was built. The excavations revealed the presence of a fresh water spring, which played an important role at the synagogue grounds and which previously had also been used by Amerindian inhabitants. This discovery also indicates the importance of studying pre-colonial remains that are found during investigations of historic locations.
In: De Waal, M.S., Finneran, N., Reilly, M.C., Armstrong, D.V. and Farmer, K. (eds) 2019: Pre-Colonial and Post-Contact Archaeology in Barbados. Past, Present, and Future Research Directions, Sidestone Press (Leiden), pp. 99-114.
In: De Waal, M.S., Finneran, N., Reilly, M.C., Armstrong, D.V. and Farmer, K. (eds) 2019: Pre-Colonial and Post-Contact Archaeology in Barbados. Past, Present, and Future Research Directions, Sidestone Press (Leiden), pp. 43-60.
In many small islands, isles and islets prehistoric communities relied heavily on the exploitation of coastal resources, resulting in a coastal subsistence focus and a large number of coastal sites. This has several interesting implications. We will focus on two major topics that are largely methods and approaches based.
1) Today, small islands are often perceived as remote, isolated locations. This has caused research biases favouring less ‘remote’ locations, as well as site functions erroneously being interpreted. The richness of the archaeological record in small island coastal settings, however, demonstrates that our current perceptions of what is remote, marginal, isolated or uninhabitable, do not mirror prehistoric perceptions. How far-reaching are these biases, and how can we challenge or combat them?
2) Coastal processes, accelerated by climate change, also endanger site survival. Therefore, protection of exposed cultural heritage is needed, and mapping and rescue excavations are urgent, although often complicated by limited resources and limited accessibility of terrains. Another complication of this site survival issue is that we do not really know what prehistoric settlement locations and settlement patterns looked like. It is essential to establish what (and how much) information we miss when it comes to coastal prehistoric, occupation. How can we fill in the blanks?
This session crosses disciplinary, chronological and geographical boundaries (not limited to Europe) to generate synergizing discussions on the above-mentioned particularities of investigating small island coastal landscapes. We welcome contributions dealing with practical archaeology research aspects relating to above-mentioned topics, as well as experiential, reflective presentations.
Abstract submissions (deadline February 9, but preferably before January 31) via https://lnkd.in/evcyidDg.
Buy the book/PDF or read online for free: https://www.sidestone.com/books/pre-colonial-and-post-contact-archaeology-in-barbados
On Friday 22 November 2019 there'll be a session on Community Archaeology in the Caribbean Netherlands during the Dutch Archaeology congress 'De Reuvensdagen'. The session is scheduled from 13.45 - 15.00 in Room 4/5 at the conference venue in Apeldoorn.
The session has the following presentations:
- Maaike de Waal (Leiden): Community Archaeology in the Netherlands Caribbean: a short introduction.
- Jay Haviser (St. Maarten): The dynamics of integrating archaeological research with community engagement in the Netherlands Caribbean
- Fred van Keulen (St. Eustatius): Practising Archaeology with and within a Dutch Caribbean Community, St. Eustatius, Caribbean Netherlands
- Philippa Jorissen (Oregon): Participating in community archaeology on Saba- a student’s perspective.
We hope that many conference participants will join this third Reuvensdagen meeting (with presentations in English) on archaeology in the Caribbean Netherlands!!!
(Picture credits: SABARC)
Edited by Maaike S. de Waal, Niall Finneran & Matthew C. Reilly with Douglas V. Armstrong & Kevin Farmer
With contributions by Alan D. Armstrong, Douglas V. Armstrong, Lindsay Bloch, Liesje Cole-Pragnell, Christopher Crain, Alissandra Cummins, Maaike S. De Waal, Niall Finneran, Scott M. Fitzpatrick, Michael D. Glascock, Alexander Gray, Mary Hill Harris, Laura Hampden, Tara A. Inniss, Quetta Kaye, Alice Lathbury, Rachel Lichtenstein, Derek Miller, Ainsley Norris, Matthew C. Reilly, Kristrina A. Shuler, Hannes Schroeder, Frederick H. Smith, William D. Stevens, Diane Wallman and Lucy Willans.
For more info & pre-order with a discount: https://www.sidestone.com/books/pre-colonial-and-post-contact-archaeology-in-barbados
We now invite you to send in your abstract for a paper presentation at our session! Deadline: February 14.
https://lnkd.in/gAEpB5j
Looking forward to meet you in Bern!
Organizers:
Maaike de Waal, Ana Pereira Roders, Uditha Jinadasa, Ilaria Rosetti and Mara de Groot.
The session is scheduled from 13.45 - 15.00 in the Windwijzer Voorzaal of the Stadsgehoorzaal Vlaardingen (Schiedamseweg 51, 3134 BB Vlaardingen).
We hope that many congress participants will join this second Reuvensdagen meeting (with presentations in Dutch) on archaeology on Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba!
Divided into four sections each under the editorial supervision of a specialist scholar, the papers contained in this volume start with an overview of different approaches to the pre-contact archaeology of the island of Barbados and focus upon recent debates and issues surrounding material culture, economic change and site location. Two following sections focus upon recent developments in historical archaeology, looking at a series of urban and plantation case studies, and then the application of scientific techniques to material cultural and ecofactual evidence. The final section considers the social implications of Barbados’ past and recent developments in community heritage, education and management.
Extensively illustrated and referenced, this volume considers in detail the historical diversity of archaeological work undertaken on the island, yet will also look forward to examine the key trends and currents that will inform the study of the archaeology of Barbados in the future. With such a rich wealth of material, this is a volume that will have considerable impact upon the wider context of Caribbeanist archaeology, history and heritage studies.