Co- led by the Simon Fraser University (SFU) and the National Archaeological and Anthropological Memory Management   (NAAM),a team of international partners has been working on a cultural landscape project to understand the long- term biodiversity change of Curaçao, and its relationship to human activities. Findings from the team show that the human occupation of Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean, dates as far back as 5735-5600 BC— up to 850 years earlier than previously thought.

Christina Giovas, who co- lead the study, says, “This new information helps push the initial exploration in this region back to a time when other islands to the north of Curaçao are also being settled. This suggests that the movement of people from the continental mainland into those more northern islands might have entangled (使卷入) with some of the movement of the people into Curaçao.” While more work is needed to determine if this is the case, Giovas notes that this indicates that the exploration of the islands off the western Venezuelan coast began earlier than previously known and provides a baseline for studying human- environment interactions in the area.

The team traveled to Curaçao in the summer of2022 for their first field season, bringing with them a group of SFU archaeology undergraduate students as part of a five- week international field school. Students helped survey, map and unearth project sites throughout the island, and then presented their findings to the local community. Throughout these activities, they worked closely with local volunteers and the project’s partner, the NAAM Foundation, an NGO that manages the island’s archaeological heritage through cooperation with the government and stakeholders (参与方).

“For archaeology, practical learning is really the best way to understand the field. To have students involved in these initiatives is, I think, where you get these general shifts in the culture of the discipline,” says Giovas. The project also works to increase local capacity for archaeology on the island, create opportunities for knowledge mobilization, and bring awareness to the depth of history of the area.

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