Strata: Portraits of Humanity, January 2016 (Islands of Darkness; Louisiana plantation site)
(1) Vanuatu has unusually high cultural diversity compared to other Pacific islands outside of New Guinea. Here we see dancing on Ambrym Island, ruins on Malekula Island and a violent volcanic eruption on Tanna Island. (2) Beneath almost a century of south Louisiana’s riotous vegetation, the Louisiana State University Rural Life Museum carried out the most extensive archaeological project to date on an antebellum plantation site in Louisiana. The project excavated the undisturbed remains of a sugar cane mill along with slave cabins.