Yucatan Peninsula (Quintana Roo, Mexico) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Seyler. Tiffany C. Fryer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Gateways to Future Historical Archaeology in Mexico and Central America", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For scholars studying colonial Latin America the hacienda institution has become an index for certain sets of land and labor relations. This indexing enables scholars to make broad statements about processes such as indigenous dispossession and commercialization even though estates historically...