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<< Text Pages >> Indian Creek - Ancient Village or Settlement in Caribbean Islands

Submitted by bat400 on Tuesday, 06 March 2007  Page Views: 7655

Site WatchSite Name: Indian Creek
Country: Caribbean Islands
NOTE: This site is 184.398 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
 Nearest Village: English Harbour
Latitude: 17.009800N  Longitude: 61.7452W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Ancient Village in Antigua.
Indian Creek is now a dry streambed, but pre-Columbian people settled here from 200BC - 1300AD. This period covers the transition when ceramics were first developed on the island.

The site was partially excavated in the 1970's leaving large areas untouched. There has been no development, although the Antigua museum website advocates some type of tourism development to preserve the site from more intrusive forms of development. Unesco has suggested Indian Creek as a World Heritage site due to its record of continuous occupation and the transition of ceramic technology.
The location given is only roughly accurate.

Note: Development threatens most important Antiguan archaeology site. See comment.
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Land project threatens Pre-Columbian Antiguan settlement by bat400 on Tuesday, 06 March 2007
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Submitted by coldrum --
A land-clearing project in southern Antigua is threatening a unique ancient settlement where Arawak Indians lived from roughly 500 B.C. until the arrival of Christopher Columbus, an archaeologist said Monday.
Crews that began removing trees on privately owned property over the weekend risk damaging pottery and other artifacts at Indian Creek, one of the most valuable archaeological sites in the Caribbean, archaeologist Reginald Murphy said.
"They've cleared the land, ripping out the trees, disturbing the soil," said Murphy, a consultant to the Antiguan government who lectures widely on the island's history. "It makes it difficult to get a good chronology on the life."

Representatives from the Ministry of the Environment and Tourism were meeting with the property owner Monday to discuss preserving the site and were not available for comment. Officials declined to identify the owner or the purpose of the project.

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