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Title: Preacher's Cave: developing a national heritage tourism site in Eluthera, Bahamas.
Creator: Day, Jane S., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: Preacher's Cave, an archaeological site in North Eleuthera, Bahamas, is arguably one of the most important historical places in that country. This large cave, isolated in a natural setting, has long been associated in the popular imagination with the first English colonists who shipwrecked in the Bahamas in 1648 and laid the foundation for the modern nation. Before the present work, no systematic scientific archaeological work had ever been conducted at this site. While Project Director for...
Show morePreacher's Cave, an archaeological site in North Eleuthera, Bahamas, is arguably one of the most important historical places in that country. This large cave, isolated in a natural setting, has long been associated in the popular imagination with the first English colonists who shipwrecked in the Bahamas in 1648 and laid the foundation for the modern nation. Before the present work, no systematic scientific archaeological work had ever been conducted at this site. While Project Director for the Preacher's Cave archaeological investigations in 1991, 1992, 2005, 2006, and 2007, I acted as liaison between the Bahamian Government, local island constituents, and the team of scholars who accomplished the work, organizing all aspects of the excavations. By analyzing the recovered material assemblage from these excavations, we were able to prove that the seventeenth-century English Puritans not only used Preacher's Cave for shelter in the first period of colonization, but altered the natural rock formations of the cave for use as the first church in the Bahamas. These excavations, in conjunction with the written record, also suggest that the area surrounding the site is the location of the first free black community in the country. Finally the scientific investigation confirmed Preacher's Cave as a prehistoric burial spot for the Lucayan people who lived in the islands before Columbus landed in 1492. These burials are unique because they were recovered with grave goods and one of the five Lucayan burials appears to be a victim of human sacrifice. No where else in the country do these three compelling narratives come together and form the basis for the development of a National Heritage Tourism Site., But protecting an historic site and interpreting it for visitors in a country where tourism is one of the major industries can be challenging. This study summarizes past strategies that were successful in the development of a small museum on the nearby is Wells using the techniques of the public historian and public archaeologist to proceed with plans for the opening of Preacher's Cave as a national park. Discussions concerning constituents, park boundaries, access, and political realities in the twenty-first century Bahamas are considered while examining the larger concept of heritage and tourism as collaborative industries.
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Date Issued: 2010
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/1927305
Subject Headings: Excavations (Archaeology), Historic sites, Antiquities, Antiquities
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECONNAISSANCE OF ELEUTHERA, BAHAMAS.
Creator: SULLIVAN, SHAUN DORSEY., Florida Atlantic University, Sears, William H., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: In December of 1973 the writer conducted an archaeological reconnaissance of the Bahamian islands of Eleuthera, Harbor Island and St. George's Cay. A total of fifteen open village sites were found along the lee shore of Eleuthera. A surface collection was made at each site and a stratigraphic pit was dug at one site, El-8. Analysis of the artifacts recovered indicated that the Bahamian Arawaks possessed a cultural system distinct from other Arawak populations,- which was specifically adapted...
Show moreIn December of 1973 the writer conducted an archaeological reconnaissance of the Bahamian islands of Eleuthera, Harbor Island and St. George's Cay. A total of fifteen open village sites were found along the lee shore of Eleuthera. A surface collection was made at each site and a stratigraphic pit was dug at one site, El-8. Analysis of the artifacts recovered indicated that the Bahamian Arawaks possessed a cultural system distinct from other Arawak populations,- which was specifically adapted to the Bahamian environment. Four ceramic types were isolated and defined within the Palmetto ceramic complex. Examination of the data pertinent to settlement and community patterning suggested a culture possessing little stratification and an economic system less productive than that of the Antillian Arawak.
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Date Issued: 1974
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13640
Subject Headings: Bahamas--Antiquities
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The relative importance of nutrient enrichment and herbivory on macroalgal communities near Norman’s Pond Cay, Exumas Cays, Bahamas: a ‘‘natural’’ enrichment experiment.
Creator: Lapointe, Brian E., Barile, Peter J., Yentsch, Charles S., Littler, Mark M., Littler, Diane S., Kakuk, Brian
Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2848311
Subject Headings: Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Herbivores, Marine algae --Bahamas --Grand Bahama, Groundwater --Pollution
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Transport of warm, high-salinity water to fringing reefs in the Exuma Cays, Bahamas: implications for coral bleaching.
Creator: Pitts, Patrick A., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007051
Subject Headings: Exuma (Bahamas), Salinity, Coral bleaching, Water temperature, Reefs--Bahamas
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Bathymetric patterns of sponge distribution on the Bahamian slope.
Creator: Maldonado, Manuel, Young, Craig M., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3331912
Subject Headings: Bathymetric maps, Sponges--Bahamas
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Marine diatoms of the Bahamas. III. Mastogloia Thw. ex Wm. Sm. species of the groups Inaequales, Lanceolatae, Sulcatae and Undulatae.
Creator: Yohn, T. A., Gibson, R. A., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1982
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007013
Subject Headings: Bahamas, Diatoms, Species, Ultrastructure (Biology)
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Marine diatoms of the Bahamas. II. Mastogloia Thw. ex Wm. Sm. Species of the groups Decussatae and Ellipticae.
Creator: Yohn, T. A.,, Gibson, R. A., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1982
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007012
Subject Headings: Bahamas, Diatoms, Species, Ultrastructure (Biology)
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Biodiversity and distribution of deep and shallow watersponges in the Bahamas.
Creator: Reed, John K., Pomponi, Shirley A.
Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007031
Subject Headings: Sponges--Bahamas, Biodiversity, Distribution
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: MOCNESS estimates of thesize and abundance of a pelagic gonostomatid fish Cyclothone pallida off the Bahamas.
Creator: McClain, C. R., Fougerolle, M. F., Rex, M. A., Welch, James M., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 2001
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007039
Subject Headings: Bahamas, Cyclothone, Pelagic fishes, Gonostomatidae
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Assessment of genetic population structure, promiscuity, and paternity in free-ranging Atlantic spotted dolphins, Stenella frontalis, in the Bahamas.
Creator: Green, Michelle L., Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Biological Sciences
Abstract/Description: This study investigated a resident community of Atlantic spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis) on Little Bahama Bank (LBB) in the Bahamas utilizing a noninvasive molecular approach. Genetic template material was collected and extracted from fecal material of S. frontalis. Fine-scale population structure was found within LBB according to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and microsatellites (Fst = 0.25317, P
Show moreThis study investigated a resident community of Atlantic spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis) on Little Bahama Bank (LBB) in the Bahamas utilizing a noninvasive molecular approach. Genetic template material was collected and extracted from fecal material of S. frontalis. Fine-scale population structure was found within LBB according to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and microsatellites (Fst = 0.25317, P < 0.0001 and Fst = 0.04491, P < 0.0001, respectively). Three main social clusters (North, Central, South/Roam) exist on LBB and all clusters were found to be genetically distinct according to microsatellite analyses. Mitochondrial haplotypes revealed North and South/Roam were not differentiated, but Central was different from both. When separated by sex, males were less genetically structured than females. Males showed no evidence of structure according to Ost or Rst., Females of all clusters were differentiated according to microsatellites whereas mtDNA revealed the same pattern in females as was seen for the total population. The structuring patterns of the sexes clearly indicate a pattern of male dispersal and female philopatry for the LBB population. Genetic investigation of mating revealed patterns in the mating system of S. frontalis on LBB. Genotypes of females and offspring were analyzed and revealed that more than two males were required to explain the progeny arrays, indicating promiscuous mating among females. In addition, paternity assessment assigned seven males as fathers to ten of 29 mother-calf pairs. A pattern of reproductive skew according to age was revealed because reproductively successful males were in the oldest age class at the estimated time of conception of the calves., Patterns in social cluster mating revealed that males from the Central cluster sired offspring with females from both the Central and North clusters, while Roaming males sired offspring with South and Central females indicating that males mate within their social cluster or with females from the next closest cluster. The study has important implications for cetacean research, specifically delphinids. Fine-scale population structure and mating patterns of male and female S. frontalis were revealed through noninvasive methodology presenting a valuable genetic framework with which to support ongoing investigations of life history, behavior, communication and social structure.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/58004
Subject Headings: Dolphins, Social behavior in animals, Population genetics, Atlantic spotted dolphin, Dolphins, Geographical distribution
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Title: Archaeological Investigations on Cat Island, Bahamas.
Creator: MacLaury, James C., Sears, William H., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: In 1966 and 1967 Cat Island, Bahamas was surveyed by field parties from Florida Atlantic University in an attempt to locate archaeological sites. A total of 19 sites were found, all but one were coastal shell middens near tidal deltas or bays. Most of the sites were on the leeward side of the island where ecological conditions for supporting large quantities of shellfish were best. In March, 1968, five of the sites located in the survey were sampled by means of small test pits. The artifact...
Show moreIn 1966 and 1967 Cat Island, Bahamas was surveyed by field parties from Florida Atlantic University in an attempt to locate archaeological sites. A total of 19 sites were found, all but one were coastal shell middens near tidal deltas or bays. Most of the sites were on the leeward side of the island where ecological conditions for supporting large quantities of shellfish were best. In March, 1968, five of the sites located in the survey were sampled by means of small test pits. The artifact assemblage consisted of over 6000 potsherds and a handful of shell and stone implements. Over 99% of the ceramic assemblage consisted of a thick, red, shell-tempered ware similar to that found in recent excavations on San Salvador by Hoffman (1967). The overwhelming amount of the Cat Island shell-tempered ware is plain with a few decorated variants. A shell-tempered series was set up and called the Palmetto series with one type, Palmetto plain, and several decorated variants. Decorative modes consisted of applique, punctation, incision, and mat and grid impressions. The ceramic assemblage also included several residual categories which contained tempering materials not native to the Bahamas. The most prominent of these was a quartz-tempered ware that showed considerable similarity to the Carrier style of northern Haiti. The decorative modes of the Palmetto series showed affiliations with northern Haiti, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands during periods IIIb and IV of Rouse's (1964) time scale for the northern Caribbean. The time of occupation was roughly 1000-1500 A.D. The culture of the island was one of fairly permanent, small villages with subsistence based on the exploitation of the marine shellfish resources and manioc agriculture. Burial and other ceremonial practices are not known.
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Date Issued: 1968
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012592
Subject Headings: Excavations (Archaeology)--Bahamas--Cat Island, Bahamas--Antiquities, Cat Island (Bahamas)--Antiquities
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Analysis of modern carbonate sediments: Lubber's Bank, Abaco, Bahamas.
Creator: Banks, Kenneth W., Florida Atlantic University, Finkl, Charles W.
Abstract/Description: The Bahamas archipelago is comprised of numerous carbonate platforms. Within these platforms are a variety of carbonate depositional environments, each unique and warranting detailed investigations of the interrelationships of physical conditions and trends in sediment texture and composition. This study examines one of these environments, Lubber's Bank. The bank is mapped and the physical hydrographic setting in the vicinity of the bank is examined through field measurements, analysis of...
Show moreThe Bahamas archipelago is comprised of numerous carbonate platforms. Within these platforms are a variety of carbonate depositional environments, each unique and warranting detailed investigations of the interrelationships of physical conditions and trends in sediment texture and composition. This study examines one of these environments, Lubber's Bank. The bank is mapped and the physical hydrographic setting in the vicinity of the bank is examined through field measurements, analysis of satellite pictures and predictive techniques. This information is correlated with analysis of sediment texture and composition. Results indicate that the surface sediments on the bank probably originate in the surrounding sea grass beds and on the bank as skeletal material and may have originated by the accumulation of sediments on antecedent topographic highs during the Holocene transgression.
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Date Issued: 1999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15645
Subject Headings: Carbonate rocks--Bahamas, Sedimentation and deposition--Bahamas, Geology--Bahamas
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Comparative use of food and space by three Bahamian butterflyfishes.
Creator: Pitts, Patrick A., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1991
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3172790
Subject Headings: Chaetodontidae, Coral reef animals --Bahamas, Coral reef animals --Behavior, Coral reefs and islands --Bahamas --Great Bahama Bank, Animals Food
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Title: The influences of the American loyalists on Bahamian architecture.
Creator: Whidden, Astrid Melzner., Florida Atlantic University, Curl, Donald W.
Abstract/Description: The architecture of the Bahamas was affected by the influx of fleeing American loyalists to that country in the late 1700s. They imported the Georgian style of architecture to the Bahamas popular in southern America's colonial towns. Fallacies over the exact nature of many Bahamian structures have dominated many discourses on this subject. By tracing the direct line of influence, using old, colonial structures these mistakes can be rectified. The loyalists managed to reshape the Bahamian...
Show moreThe architecture of the Bahamas was affected by the influx of fleeing American loyalists to that country in the late 1700s. They imported the Georgian style of architecture to the Bahamas popular in southern America's colonial towns. Fallacies over the exact nature of many Bahamian structures have dominated many discourses on this subject. By tracing the direct line of influence, using old, colonial structures these mistakes can be rectified. The loyalists managed to reshape the Bahamian capital of Nassau and develop many of the small Out Islands. Although their influence lasted only a short while, the loyalists altered the nature of the identity of the Bahamian people.
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Date Issued: 1995
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15148
Subject Headings: Architecture--Bahamas, American loyalists--Bahamas, Architecture--North Carolina, Architecture--South Carolina, Bahamas--History
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: THE EPIPHYTIC ORCHIDS OF ANDROS ISLAND, BAHAMAS ISLANDS.
Creator: SAULEDA, RUBEN PRIMITIVO., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: The taxonomy and ecology of the epiphytic orchids of Andros Island, Bahama Islands are treated. Island topography and the habitats which support orchid populations are discussed. A total of 24 species and two varieties comprising 10 genera are treated in detail. Also included are generic descriptions and keys to the genera and to the species.
Date Issued: 1979
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13993
Subject Headings: Orchids--Varieties--Bahamas, Orchids--Bahamas--Andros Island--Identification, Orchids--Ecology--Bahamas--Andros Island
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Guide to the dominant macroalgae of the stromatolite fringing reef complex,Highborne Cay, Bahamas.
Creator: Littler, Diane S., Littler, Mark M., MacIntyre, I. G., Bowlin, E., Andres, M. S., Reid, R. P., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007100
Subject Headings: Highbourn Cay (Bahamas), Stromatolites, Coralline algae, Reefs
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A fire worm with a sheltered life: studies of Benthoscolex cubanus Hartman (Amphinomidae), an internal associate of the bathyal sea-urchin Archeopneustes hystrix (A. Agassiz, 1880).
Creator: Emson, Roland H., Young, Craig M., Paterson, G. L. J., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1993
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3352929
Subject Headings: Amphinomidae, Sea urchins, Echinoida, Foraminifera, Commensalism, Bahamas
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Marine diatoms of the Bahamas. I. Mastogloia Thw. ex Wm. Sm. species of the groups Lanceolatae and Undulatae.
Creator: Yohn, T. A., Gibson, R. A., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1981
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007010
Subject Headings: Bahamas, Diatoms, Diatoms--Ultrastructure, Species
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: AndrosIsland flora and fauna in the new millennium.
Creator: Lopez, Jose V., Peterson, C. L., Morales, F., Brown, L., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 2000
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007353
Subject Headings: Andros Island (Bahamas), Flora and fauna, Biodiversity
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Deepest distribution of Atlantic hermatypic corals discovered in the Bahamas.
Creator: Reed, John K.
Date Issued: 1985
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007029
Subject Headings: Corals--Bahamas, Stony corals, Scleractinia
Format: Document (PDF)

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