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Archaeology at La Isabela
A companion volume to Columbus's Outpost Among the Ta�nos: Spain and America at La Isabela, 1493-1498 , this book focuses more on the archaeological evidence from the site. This is a readable, non-technical synthesis of evidence from the site and includes the author's interpretations and integration of archaeological and documentary sources. Chapters look at the history and background of La Isabela, at the excavation, the physical and cultural landscape of Columbus' colony and of life in the town, its buildings and culture.
Domestic Architecture and Power
Historical archaeology, one of the fastest growing of archaeology’s sub fields in North America, has developed more slowly in Central and p- ticularly South America. Happily, this circumstance is ending as a gr- ing number of recent projects are successfully integrating textual and material culture data in studies of the events and processes of the last 500 years. This interval and this region–often called Ibero-America–have been studied for a century or more by historians with traditional perspectives and emphases focusing on colonial elites and large-scale politico-economic events. Such inclinations fit well into world-system and other core-peri- ery models that have had a major impa...
En Bas Saline
Life in an Indigenous town during an understudied era of Haitian history This book details the Indigenous TaÃno occupation at En Bas Saline in Hispaniola between AD 1250 and 1520, showing how the community coped with the dramatic changes imposed by Spanish contact. En Bas Saline is the largest late precontact TaÃno town recorded in what is now Haiti; the only one that has been extensively excavated and analyzed; and one of few with archaeologically documented occupation both before and after the arrival of Columbus in 1492. It is thought to be the site of La Navidad, Columbus’s first settlement, where the cacique Guacanagarà offered refuge and shelter after the sinking of the Santa MarÃ...
A Millennium of Cultural Contact
A comprehensive textbook detailing the millennium of cultural contact between European societies and the rest of the world.
En Bas Saline
This book details the Indigenous TaÃno occupation at En Bas Saline in Hispaniola between AD 1250 and 1520, showing how the community coped with the dramatic changes imposed by Spanish contact.
The Yamasee Indians
Archaeologists of South Carolina and Florida and historians of the Native South, Spanish Florida, and British Carolina address elusive questions about Yamasee identity, political and social networks, and the fate of the Yamasees after the Yamasee War.
ARTIFACTS SPANISH COLONIES V1 PB
This first volume of Kathleen Deagan's two-volume summation of Spanish colonial material culture focuses on a wide variety of ceramics, luxury and utilitarian glassware, tiles, and beads. For this paperback edition, she has updated her text examining artifacts of both European and New World manufacture, and has expanded and updated her bibliography. This volume and Volume 2: Portable Personal Possessions constitute the definitive guide to the material culture of the Spanish colonies of Florida and the Caribbean.
Empires
Empires, the largest political systems of the ancient and early modern world, powerfully transformed the lives of people within and even beyond their frontiers in ways quite different from other, non-imperial societies. Appearing in all parts of the globe, and in many different epochs, empires invite comparative analysis - yet few attempts have been made to place imperial systems within such a framework. This book brings together studies by distinguished scholars from diverse academic traditions, including anthropology, archaeology, history and classics. The empires discussed include case studies from Central and South America, the Mediterranean, Europe, the Near East, South East Asia and China, and range in time from the first millennium BC to the early modern era. The book organises these detailed studies into five thematic sections: sources, approaches and definitions; empires in a wider world; imperial integration and imperial subjects; imperial ideologies; and the afterlife of empires.
International Handbook of Historical Archaeology
In studying the past, archaeologists have focused on the material remains of our ancestors. Prehistorians generally have only artifacts to study and rely on the diverse material record for their understanding of past societies and their behavior. Those involved in studying historically documented cultures not only have extensive material remains but also contemporary texts, images, and a range of investigative technologies to enable them to build a broader and more reflexive picture of how past societies, communities, and individuals operated and behaved. Increasingly, historical archaeology refers not to a particular period, place, or a method, but rather an approach that interrogates the t...
