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DOCUMENT Citation Only Lorena Medina Martínez.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Contact and Colonialism" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The history that can be obtained through archaeology in large cities such as México City is difficult to recover due to constant occupation and transformation of the space. It is for this reason that urban archaeology plays a very important role in recovering, investigating, and protecting the material evidence left by past occupations that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Russell Skowronek. Richard Johnson. Brandi Reger.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the 55 years since the founding of the SHA, copper and copper-alloy vessels and other objects associated with the Spanish colonial and Mexican Republican borderlands in North America have received scant attention from archaeologists. To rectify this shortcoming in 2017 the “Copper on the Borderlands of New Spain” or COTBONS...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Blanca Maldonado.

Mining and metallurgy played a critical role in the economic, political, and social development of Spanish American colonies, and although it has consequently received extensive attention by scholars, there have been very few studies of the environmental dimensions of these industries. The present work explores the impact of mining and processing of metal ores on the environment, for the mining districts located along the Bishopric of Michoacan (which included the modern states of Michoacan and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Josue T. Guzman.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Plus Ultra: An examination of current research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Tar-coated under the sun, mounted on concrete bases instead of carriages, outdoor-displayed in courtyards, walls and bulwarks of maritime fortifications built in Viceroyalty Period, or along boulevards and squares of several Mexico...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andreia Martins Torres.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Glass Beads: Global Artefacts, Local Perspectives", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper focuses on the analysis of a thype of golden glass beads that has been recovered in different archaeological excavations carried out by INAH in Mexico City, to question two widely held ideas about these objects in New Spain. First, it focuses on the contexts in which they have appeared to challenge the idea that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lorena Medina Martínez.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Through historical archaeology, we can analyze material remains of past societies beyond its materiality and description to reach its context and understand facets of economy, religion, politics, identity, and culture. Here, I am presenting an investigation in which, analyzing the remains of the first cathedral of New Spain,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Worth.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Plus Ultra: An examination of current research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Four years of archaeological investigations have now been conducted by the University of West Florida at the site of the port settlement established by Tristán de Luna y Arellano on Pensacola Bay in 1559, and devastated by the loss of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Russell K Skowronek. Brandi Reger. Richard E Johnson. James R. Hinthorne.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Plus Ultra: An examination of current research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the past three years, more than 200 copper vessels from archaeological and museum collections deriving from Spanish colonial contexts were analyzed with a handheld portable X-Ray Fluorescence analyzer (pXRF). Originally developed...