Lithic Communities of Practice at the Missions of La Florida
Author(s): Charles R. Cobb; Gifford Waters
Year: 2018
Summary
Lithic data have received sparse attention in research on the Franciscan missions of Spanish La Florida. A re-analysis of the collections from three seventeenth-century interior missions reveals that Native Americans continued to rely on a diverse lithic technological tradition well after arrival of friars in their communities and the subsequent importation of metal tools. This pattern is also reflected in historical accounts where, for example, Native Americans were mandated to maintain quotas of arrows. The use of formal and expedient stone tools constituted distinctive communities of practice for Timucuan groups, reflecting the persistence of Indigenous traditions well into the colonial era. We also discuss our digital archive project, The Comparative Missions Archaeological Portal, and how data from missions will be made available to the public.
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Lithic Communities of Practice at the Missions of La Florida. Charles R. Cobb, Gifford Waters. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441466)
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Keywords
General
Communities of Practice
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Florida Missions
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Lithics
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Colonial
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 245