Missions (Other Keyword)

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Mapping Missions: Visualizing the Cultural Landscapes of 18th Century Spanish Mission Communities in St. Augustine (2022)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine M. Sims. Andrea P. White.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Since the late sixteenth century, the fledgling colony of St. Augustine served as an anchor for the Spanish mission system that spread throughout the interior southeastern United States. At the start of the eighteenth century, the network of religious towns experienced conflict and destruction at the hands of the English and their...

Missions Reveal State's Spanish-Indian Heritage (1970)

DOCUMENT Citation Only B. Calvin Jones.

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Negotiating And Creating Tension And Change Through Religion, Mortuary Practices, and Burial Sites Within African-Descent And Moravian Communities In The Caribbean (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Helen C. Blouet.

Historical archaeologies of the African diaspora in the Caribbean have recently expanded on analyses of relationships between religion, mortuary practices, burial sites, and varied environmental, social, economic, and cultural contexts. In addition, studies currently investigate the politics of death and burial, including who controlled mortuary spaces, at what times, by which means, and for what purposes. Finally, research collaborations analyze community formation and activity through the lens...

Outside of the Reach of the Mission Bell: Tongva Ritual Practice on San Clemente Island (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elisabeth A. Rareshide.

The Mission Period in Alta California (AD 1769-1834) radically changed the lives of indigenous people such as the Tongva. Many Tongva people joined the Spanish missions, but some practiced rituals connected to the Chinigchinich religion on San Clemente Island. Patterns of consumption of native and foreign material culture may reveal new layers of meaning in persistent ritual practices. With a variety of ritual features, the Lemon Tank artifact collection from San Clemente Island provides a rich...

Outside The Mission Walls: The Complexities Of Compound Concepcion (2022)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria C. Pagano. Caitlin A. Gulihur. Ann M. Scott.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "From the Famed to the Forgotten: Exploring San Antonio’s Storied History Through Urban Archeology" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the past 290 years, the compound and the lands adjacent to Mission Concepcion have seen waves of development that have altered the landscape from the rural agricultural setting of 1731 to a bustling urban district of residential and commercial development. During this time,...

A Palimpsest of Pits and Posts: Excavations at Mission San Buena Bentura de Palica in St. Augustine, Florida (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine M. Sims. Andrea P. White.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Ventures and Native Voices: Legacies from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the early 1700s, communities of Christianized Native Americans living in Spanish mission communities across the southeastern U.S. were being actively attacked by the British and their Native allies. By 1706, the chain of missions was reduced to only a handful of refugee settlements,...

Precursors of Missionization: Early European Contact on the Georgia Coast, 1514-1587 (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Worth.

Beginning not long after the Spanish discovery of the Florida peninsula in 1513, indigenous groups along the Georgia coast were increasingly subject to sporadic maritime visits by Spanish and later French ships. By the time Georgia’s coastal chiefdoms were assimilated into the expanding Franciscan mission system of Spanish Florida after 1587, they had already experienced more than seven decades of occasional interaction with European slavers, colonists, soldiers, missionaries, traders, and...

Recent Archaeological Investigations at Mission San Juan Capistrano, Texas: Indigenous Identity in Spanish Colonial and Modern Times. (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan R Snow. Alexis Artuz. Laura Tenen.

This paper will discuss the results of the archaeological investigations that were conducted as part of the establishment of a platted reburial area at Mission San Juan. The discovery of human remains during the stabilization and restoration of the Mission San Juan church led to a creative partnership between the Archdiocese of San Antonio and the National Park Service to provide a respectful reburial area that complied with the Texas Health and Safety Code, and did not compromise the integrity...

Santa Maria in the Written Record (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy T. Bushnell.

Shifts in Projectile Point Form from Pre-Mission through Mission Times within the Pluralistic Context of the Texas Missions (2022)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason Whitaker. Steve Tomka.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "From the Famed to the Forgotten: Exploring San Antonio’s Storied History Through Urban Archeology" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The missions of south Texas and the Coastal Plains became home to members of hundreds of indigenous groups during the 18th century. These groups occupied a large geographic area encompassing Northern Mexico, West Texas, the Edwards Plateau, Central Texas and the Coastal Plains...

Spanish Mission Archaeology in the Southeast. 1974-2014 A.D. (After Dave) (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathleen Deagan-Harris.

The archaeological study of Spanish missions among the American Indians has been underway in the Southeastern and Western regions of the United States for more than 70 years. This paper considers the directions and contributions of that body of work in the Southeast, with particular attention to the interdisciplinary impacts of the Santa Catalina Mission program, carried out by Dave Thomas between 1974 and today on St. Catherine's Island, Georgia. SAA 2015 abstracts made available in tDAR...

A Study of Indigenous Daily Life Integrating Geophysical and Archaeological Methods at the San Antonio Missions (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa A Agnew.

The San Antonio Missions were established along the San Antonio River in the 18th century by the Spanish in order to convert the native populations to Christianity and to buffer the French settlements to the east. These colonial institutes brought Spanish Catholic priests and indigenous groups together under one roof, merging cultural practices and beliefs. The missions are now a UNESCO World Heritage site and a vital part of San Antonio’s history and tourism industry. This paper presents a...

Survey and Evaluation of Archeological Resources in the Abbot Tract and North City, St. Augustine (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward E. Chancy.

Test Excavations At the Whirlwind Mission (Site 34BL-47) (1992)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John D. Hartley.