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DESCRIPTION:The Anthropology Department welcomes M. Dores Cruz to give her 
 talk titled “A View from the End of the World: The Archaeology of&nbsp\;Sã
 o&nbsp\;Tomé's Plantation Complex and the Origins of the Atlantic World.”S
 ão&nbsp\;Tomé\, officially the Democratic Republic of&nbsp\;São&nbsp\;Tomé
  and Príncipe\, is an island country in the Gulf of Guinea (western coast 
 of Central Africa). Colonized by the Portuguese throughout the 16th centur
 y\, the island was ideal for cash crop cultivation and soon boasted a plan
 tation economy heavily reliant on slave labor. It became an important cent
 er in the Atlantic slave trade. Cruz's research takes a regional\, multi-s
 calar approach to the analysis of these early plantation landscapes and su
 gar cycles in São&nbsp\;Tomé and the archaeology of the origins of the Mod
 ern Atlantic world.Cruz is a faculty member in the African Studies Departm
 ent of the University of Cologne\, Germany. She received a Ph.D. in anthro
 pology from SUNY Binghamton.
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SUMMARY:M. Dores Cruz | A View from the End of the World
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>The Anthropology Department welcomes M. Dor
 es Cruz to give her talk titled “A View from the End of the World: The Arc
 haeology of&nbsp\;São&nbsp\;Tomé's Plantation Complex and the Origins of t
 he Atlantic World.”</p><p>São&nbsp\;Tomé\, officially the Democratic Repub
 lic of&nbsp\;São&nbsp\;Tomé and Príncipe\, is an island country in the Gul
 f of Guinea (western coast of Central Africa). Colonized by the Portuguese
  throughout the 16th century\, the island was ideal for cash crop cultivat
 ion and soon boasted a plantation economy heavily reliant on slave labor. 
 It became an important center in the Atlantic slave trade. Cruz's research
  takes a regional\, multi-scalar approach to the analysis of these early p
 lantation landscapes and sugar cycles in São&nbsp\;Tomé and the archaeolog
 y of the origins of the Modern Atlantic world.</p><p>Cruz is a faculty mem
 ber in the African Studies Department of the University of Cologne\, Germa
 ny. She received a Ph.D. in anthropology from SUNY Binghamton.</p>
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