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This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Early Colonial (1650s through 1750s) sites on Maryland’s Western Shore occupy several distinct ecosystems, each offering opportunities for, and imposing constraints on, provisioning strategies. Faunal data assembled from eight Maryland sites along the Chesapeake Bay measure that variability as the first phase in a larger study that explores varying dietary patterns and the effects...
Reevaluating Understudied Sources: A Comparison of Early Colonial Period Domestic Life in Mexico’s North-Central Yucatán (2016)
The domestic archaeology of Early Colonial period Yucatán, Mexico is well regarded as a melting pot of imported and local technologies, goods, and systems of belief. Evaluating domestic access to goods during the Early Colonial period is usually done by comparing the frequency between locally produced and imported wares. This type of comparison allows for preliminary insight into cultural breaks, and or, cultural continuity during the first few generations after European Contact. Although much...
A View from the Hinterlands: Early Colonial Objects in Mortuary Contexts in Northern Highland Ecuador (2017)
In this paper I re-visit a particularly interesting find made in the Pimampiro District of northern highland Ecuador a number of years ago. It consisted of a traditional shaft tomb burial that contained an unusual assemblage of items, which included seemingly obvious Late Period Caranqui and Panzaleo wares together with a set of four Nueva Cadiz beads. How and why did these precious European objects penetrate this seemingly remote region at such an early date to be inserted into such a basic...