L’Utile 1761… « Esclaves oubliés »

Romon, Thomas; Guérout, Max

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“…They pledged to return for them but did not keep their promise. It was not until 15 years later, on 29 November 1776, that the Chevalier de Tromelin, captain of the ship La Dauphine , rescued eight survivors: seven women and an 8‐month‐old baby (Guérout, ; Guérout & Romon, , ; Romon & Guérout, ).…”

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“…The log of La Dauphine , which contained the testimony delivered by the Malagasy women after their rescue, is lost, and only a few letters and a paper published in the Journal Historique et Politique (30 August 1777) have survived. Excavations undertaken in 2006, 2008 and 2010 by M. Guérout (GRAN), with the help of T. Romon (INRAP), provided field observations and archaeological remains that show how the forgotten slaves survived in the hostile environment of Tromelin Island (Guérout, ; Guérout & Romon, , ; Romon & Guérout, ; Marriner et al ., ; Guérout et al ., ).…”

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The Use of Avian Resources by the Forgotten Slaves of Tromelin Island (Indian Ocean)

Laroulandie

Lefèvre

2013

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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On 31 July 1761, the Utile, a French slave ship from the Compagnie française des Indes, illegally loaded with Malagasy slaves, was shipwrecked on the desert islet of Tromelin. Two months after the disaster, the French crew left the island on a boat constructed from the wreckage and abandoned the slaves. Fifteen years later, Chevalier de Tromelin rescued eight survivors. An archaeological excavation recently conducted by M. Guérout and T. Romon revealed how the forgotten slaves adapted themselves to this hostile environment. The Malagasy survived using natural resources of the islet and material from the Utile. This paper, based on the archaeozoological analysis of almost 18 000 bird bones, focuses on their use of avian resources. The Malagasy survivors captured numerous individuals from a breeding colony of sooty tern Onychoprion fuscatus, as indicated by the presence of medullary bone and immature birds. Cut marks and localised burning at the bone extremities testify to the cooking method used. Under-representation of the bones from the distal extremity of the wing, together with the rare written archives collected after the rescue, give evidence of the utilisation of feathers as raw material. An estimate of the total number of terns and eggs that were collected, compared with historical and modern ornithological observations, allows us to discuss the consequences of human predation on the disappearance of the sooty tern colony from Tromelin Island.

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The Use of Avian Resources by the Forgotten Slaves of Tromelin Island (Indian Ocean)

Laroulandie

Lefèvre

2013

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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Géomorphologie de Tromelin, océan Indien

Marriner

Guérout

Romon

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Comptes Rendus. Géoscience

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A Geomorphological Reconnaissance of Tromelin Island, Indian Ocean

Marriner¹,

Pirazzoli²,

Fontugne³

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Journal of Coastal Research

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Tromelin is a small coral reef island (1 km2) located in the Indian Ocean, approximately 440 km E of Madagascar and 580 km N of La Réunion. Despite the presence of a permanent Météo France weather station on Tromelin since the 1950s, a detailed geomorphological study of the island has never been undertaken. In this paper, we describe the geomorphology of the atoll, detailing seven geomorphological zones from the outer reef to the atoll crown. We also discuss Holocene relative sea-level changes in the light of new radiometric datings. Uranium-thorium dating of a remnant mid-Holocene reef-flat yielded an age of 5700 ± 400 years and could be interpreted as a relative sea level approximately 1.2 m above present. Subsequent possible sea-level positions have been inferred from coral conglomerates left by high-energy waves. These conglomerates might be interpreted as a beachrock, cemented mainly in the former intertidal zone when sea level was still approximately 1.2 m above present. The radiocarbon dating of three coral fragment samples collected from these conglomerates has yielded ages spanning 4200 to 2900 calibrated years BP

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L’Utile 1761… « Esclaves oubliés »

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The Use of Avian Resources by the Forgotten Slaves of Tromelin Island (Indian Ocean)

The Use of Avian Resources by the Forgotten Slaves of Tromelin Island (Indian Ocean)

Géomorphologie de Tromelin, océan Indien

A Geomorphological Reconnaissance of Tromelin Island, Indian Ocean

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