Zachary J M Beier

Biographic Data

ID77988
NAMEZachary J M Beier
GIVEN NAMESZachary J M
FAMILY NAMEBeier
SIGNATUREBEIER Z J M
AFFILIATIONSDepartment of History and Archaeology University of the West Indies Mona Jamaica
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Source to sink in precolonial Jamaica: Tracing geochemistry and mineralogy from the rocks to the pots in understanding White Marl pottery production and exchange

    Open AccessP E Siegel, ımon F Mıtchell et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2024Cited by: 1References: 22

  • The legacy of 1300 years of land use in Jamaica

    Open AccessSinikka Elliott, Yoshi Maezumi et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Island and Coastal…2022References: 35

    Despite decades of archaeological research on Jamaica, little is known about how settlers influenced landscape change on the island over time. Here, we examine the impact of human occupation through a multi-proxy approach using phytolith, charcoal, and stratigraphic analyses. White Marl was a continuously inhabited village settlement (ca. 1050–450 cal yrs BP) with large mounded midden areas, precolonial house structures, and human landscape manag…

  • Archaeological History, Memory, and Heritage at the White Marl Site, Central Village, St Catherine Parish, Jamaica

    Open AccessP E Siegel, Zachary J M Beier et al.ARTICLEPublic Archaeology2022References: 17

    White Marl is the largest, most complexly organized pre-colonial site documented for Jamaica and it is increasingly at risk due to plans for highway improvements. The site is of fundamental importance to overlapping sets of stakeholders: local residents, descendant communities, professional and avocational archaeologists, and heritage managers. We consider concepts of memory and heritage, linking decades of archaeological research at White Marl t…

  • British Forts and Their Communities: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives

    Christopher R Decorse, Zachary J M BeierBOOKBritish Forts and Their Communities2018

    British Forts and Their Communities is about the diverse communities associated with English and British forts of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. While forts and fortifications have received a great deal of attention from both historians and archaeologists, research has often focused on their military roles. These iconic edifices were, however, places where an array of people of diverse ethnicities and backgrounds met and i…

  • Precolonial/early colonial human burials from the site of White Marl, Jamaica: New findings from recent rescue excavations

    Open AccessHayley L Mickleburgh, J E Laffoon et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018Cited by: 5References: 9

    The recent excavation of three human burials at White Marl, Jamaica ( AD 900–1500), presented an important opportunity to garner new insight into precolonial life and death on Jamaica. The study, undertaken as a part of a collaborative heritage mitigation programme in the wake of planned infrastructural development of parts of the site, focused on burial practices and ancient diet and mobility. The results reveal that the burial treatment of thes…

  • Military Material Life in the British Caribbean: Historical Archaeology of Fort Rocky, Kingston Harbor, Jamaica (ca. 1880–1945)

    Stephan Lenik, Stephan T Lenik et al.CHAPTERArchaeologies of Slavery and…2016

    Previous research in British Caribbean colonies investigates the lives of free and enslaved military personnel during the period of Atlantic slavery, within the context of each outpost’s strategic significance. Less well known are militia infantry and artillery that were stationed at military sites from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. In Jamaica, Rocky Point Battery, later Fort Rocky, defended Kingston Harbor from the 1880s until the Secon…