{"id":720,"date":"2024-09-24T12:19:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T16:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-heritage-and-archaeological-studies\/?page_id=720"},"modified":"2024-09-26T08:55:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T12:55:16","slug":"public-archaeology-indigenous-heritage-and-afro-jamaican-identity-at-the-white-marl-site-central-village-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-heritage-and-archaeological-studies\/public-archaeology-indigenous-heritage-and-afro-jamaican-identity-at-the-white-marl-site-central-village-jamaica\/","title":{"rendered":"White Marl Site, Central Village, Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Public Archaeology, Indigenous Heritage, and Afro-Jamaican Identity at the White Marl Site, Central Village, Jamaica<\/h2>\n<p>The Center for Heritage &amp; Archaeological Studies, the Department of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/anthropology\/\">Anthropology<\/a>, and the Northern New Jersey Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America held an event on Sept 18, 2024: &#8220;Public Archaeology, Indigenous Heritage, and Afro-Jamaican Identity at the White Marl Site, Central Village, Jamaica.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=siegelp\">Peter Siegel<\/a> (Anthropology), Kasike Kalaan Nibonrix (Chief of the <a href=\"https:\/\/yamayeguani.com\/\">Jamaican Ta\u00ednos<\/a>), and Zachary Beier (Senior Archaeologist with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chronicleheritage.com.\">Chronicle Heritage<\/a>) discussed the significance of the White Marl archaeological site and how this heritage resource is important to local community members and descendants of the original Indigenous occupants. The future of White Marl is uncertain owing to proposed plans to widen a highway that bisects the site. Siegel, Kalaan, and Beier addressed potential measures that could be taken to mitigate or minimize adverse effects to this crucially important heritage site.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Video: CHAS 2024 09 18 WhiteMarl Jamaica\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TESlJKCPcgU?feature=oembed\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen style=\"width: 500px; height: 281px; border: 0px solid #000;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Archaeology, Indigenous Heritage, and Afro-Jamaican Identity at the White Marl Site, Central Village, Jamaica The Center for Heritage &amp; Archaeological Studies, the Department of Anthropology, and the Northern New Jersey Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America held an event on Sept 18, 2024: &#8220;Public Archaeology, Indigenous Heritage, and Afro-Jamaican Identity at the White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":719,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-720","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-heritage-and-archaeological-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-heritage-and-archaeological-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-heritage-and-archaeological-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-heritage-and-archaeological-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-heritage-and-archaeological-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-heritage-and-archaeological-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-heritage-and-archaeological-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/720\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-heritage-and-archaeological-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-heritage-and-archaeological-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}