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A terrific new article, available open access --

Introducing African Mobilities and Heritage in the Indian Ocean World, by Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya. Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A fascinating new article on African diasporas in India --

Island Fort Janjira: Living Memories and Heritage, by Beheroze Shroff and Sonal Mehta, Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#AfricanDiasporaHeritage #MemoryStudies
October 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, Vol. 14, Issue 2 (July 2025)
www.tandfonline.com/toc/yjaf20/1...

In the Footsteps of Nat Turner

An Archaeology of a Gullah Geechee Fishing Village

Climate Change, Cultural Heritage, and Legacies of Anti-Blackness at Fort Mose
October 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Another great, new article --

Waiting on the Tide: Climate Change, Cultural Heritage, and Legacies of Anti-Blackness at Fort Mose, by Mary Elizabeth “Liz” Ibarrola, J. African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#AfricanDiasporaArchaeology #Florida #FortMose
October 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
A great, new article --

"An Archaeology of a Gullah Geechee Fishing Village: An Afrofuturist Perspective," by Jodi A. Barnes, Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HistoricalArchaeology #AfricanDiasporaArchaeology #AfroFuturism #GullahGeechee
October 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
New article!

The Kızlar Ağası in the Early Modern Period: Reconstructing Perceptions of the Chief Harem Eunuch of the Ottoman Empire through Contemporary Narratives, by Faaeza Jasdanwalla-Williams, J. African Diaspora Archaeology & Heritage, www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"From Plantations to Military: Heritage of Galle Fort in Sri Lanka," by Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, J. African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, open access, www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HistoricalArchaeology #AfricanDiasporaArchaeology #IndianOceanRegion #AfricanDiasporaHeritage #SriLanka
August 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
An excellent new article --

In the Footsteps of Nat Turner: Interpreting the Southampton Insurrection Battlefield, by Garrett R. Fesler, Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HistoricalArchaeology #rebellion #insurrection #slavery
July 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The June 2025 issue of the African Diaspora Archaeology Network Newsletter is now available at www.diaspora.illinois.edu/news0625/new....
June 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
March 2025 African Diaspora Archaeology Network Newsletter

Happy Springtime!

The March 2025 issue of the Newsletter is now available at www.diaspora.illinois.edu/news0325/new....

Best wishes,
Chris Fennell

#Archaeology #AfricanDiasporaArchaeology #HistoricalArchaeology
March 31, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, Vol. 14, Issue 1 (March 2025)

Our March issue of the Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage is available online. www.tandfonline.com/toc/yjaf20/1....

#HistoricalArchaeology #Argentina #Brazil #Barbados
March 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Afro-diasporic Expressions in Contexts of Invisibility: A Study of a Cemetery and Afro-Argentine Dwellings of the Twentieth Century, by Alejandro Richard, J. African Diaspora Archaeology & Heritage, doi.org/10.1080/2161...

#AfricanDiasporaArchaeology #HistoricalArchaeology #AfroArgentina #cemetery
February 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Archaeology of the African Diaspora
Christopher C. Fennell
doi.org/10.1093/acre...
Published online: 19 February 2025
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology, edited by Mark Aldenderfer. New York: Oxford University Press
#HistoricalArchaeology #AfricanDiasporaArchaeology #AfricanHeritage
February 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The Siddis of Karnataka: Religiosity, Africanity and the Struggle Against Discrimination, by Andreas Hofbauer, Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage. doi.org/10.1080/2161...

#AfricanDiasporaArchaeology #AfricanDiasporaHeritage #India #Karnataka #Siddis #caste #race
February 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM
More Complicated Than Meal, Meat, and Molasses: Historicizing Enslaved Rations in the Southern United States, by Matthew C. Greer, J. of African Diaspora Archaeology & Heritage, doi.org/10.1080/2161...

#Archaeology #AfricanDiasporaHeritage #Foodways #Plantations #Slavery #FoodRations
February 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, Vol. 13, Issue 3 (Nov. 2024)

Our November issue is available online. www.tandfonline.com/toc/yjaf20/1...

#Archaeology #Bioarchaeology #AfricanDiaspora #Repatriation #Tanzania #MilitaryHistory #AfricanHeritage #HistoricalArchaeology
January 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Uncovering Histories: Archaeology and the Contemporary Struggles of Quilombola Communities in the Amazon, by Diogo Menezes Costa, doi.org/10.1080/2161...

#HistoricalArchaeology #AfricanDiasporas #AfricanHeritage #Brazil #AmazonRegion #slavery #emancipation #maroonage
January 14, 2025 at 2:48 AM
“Their Veneration for Every Thing Connected with the Grave”: Evidence of an Afro-Barbadian Burial Ground at Society Plantation, Barbados, West Indies, by Matthew C. Reilly, Brian Whiting & Newlands Greenidge, doi.org/10.1080/2161...

#HistoricalArchaeology #AfricanDiasporas
January 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Greetings!

The December 2024 issue of the Newsletter now available at www.diaspora.illinois.edu/news1224/new....

Best wishes for a great holiday season!
Chris Fennell

#Archaeology #HistoricalArchaeology #AfricanDiasporaArchaeology
December 24, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Restitution and Repatriation of Ancestral, Human Remains from Colonial Contexts in Tanzania, by Maximilian Felix Chami, Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, doi.org/10.1080/2161...

#HistoricalArchaeology #AfricanDiasporas #AfricanHeritage #Repatriation #Tanzania #colonialism
November 19, 2024 at 7:02 PM
New, open access article --
Bioarchaeological Approaches to African Diasporas in the Twenty-First Century: Intercontinental and Global Legacies of Displacement, by Kristrina A. Shuler and Andreana S. Cunningham
Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, doi.org/10.1080/2161...
October 21, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Experiments in Cotton and Conversion: Post-Abolition Labor and Community at the Mission of St. Joseph, Senegal, by Johanna Alaimo Pacyga, J. of African Diaspora Arch'y & Heritage, doi.org/10.1080/2161...
#AfricanDiasporaArchaeology #HistoricalArchaeology
October 1, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Valongo, the Place of the Ancestors: Spiritual Practices among Enslaved Africans in Nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, by Tania Andrade Lima. Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, open-access, www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HistoricalArchaeology #AfricanDiasporaArchaeology
September 11, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Coming soon from Routledge Press: "Grappling with Monuments of Oppression: Moving from Analysis to Activism," edited by Christopher C Fennell.

www.routledge.com/Grappling-wi...
August 15, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Medicine, Reproduction, and Women’s Health at the Orange Valley Plantation, Jamaica, by Jacqueline Woodruff, Richard Veit, and Nicola Kelly. J. African Diaspora Archaeology & Heritage, www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#AfricanDiasporaArchaeology #Jamaica #Caribbean #MedicalHistory
May 29, 2024 at 1:38 PM