Finding Alcatrazes and early Luso-African settlement on Santiago Island, Cape Verde
Abstract
After the Portuguese discovered the Cape Verde Islands in AD 1456 they divided its main island, Santiago, into two governing captaincies. The founding settlement in the south-west, Cidade Velha, soon became the Islands’ capital and a thriving trade centre; in contrast, that in the east, Alcatrazes, only lasted as an official seat from 1484–1516 and is held to have ‘failed’ (see Richter 2015).
Authors
- Christopher Evans
Division of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK - Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
Division of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK - Michael J. Allen
Allen Environmental Archaeology, Redroof, Green Road, Codford St Peter, Warminster BA12 0NW, UK - Jo Appleby
Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK - Tania Manuel Casimiro
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Avenida de Berna 26 C, 1069-061 Lisboa, Portugal - Charles French
Division of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK - Sarah Inskip
Division of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK - Jose Lima
Instituto do Património Cultural, Ministerio da Cultura, Praia, Cabo Verde - Richard Newman
Division of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK - Konstanin Richter
Independent researcher, Dorfstraße 21, 26441 Jever, Germany - Rob Scaife
Palaeoenvironmental Laboratory, Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, University Road, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
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