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This is an abstract from the "Jesuit Missions, Plantations, and Industries" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. An historical archaeology of Jesuit sites in the Americas reveals how these missions impacted the diverse peoples with whom Jesuits sustained daily interactions, as well as the priests and lay brothers themselves. From its headquarters in Rome, this Catholic religious order built and maintained a global mission program that consisted not...
Pan-American Ceramics Project: Increasing the Accessibility and Interoperability of Ceramic Data in the Digital Age (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pottery is a powerful tool for understanding past societies. The timing and function of a site, the nature and rhythms of daily life, and the social relations of site inhabitants with each other and with people from far away regions are questions archaeologists ask of ceramic data regularly. The power of such data can be greatly enhanced when they...
Spanish and English Maritime Atlases as Sources for the Archaeology of the Americas’ Pacific Coast. (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Spanish Derrotero General del Mar del Sur atlases and their English derivatives, the Hack atlases, contain a trove of cartographic and historical information regarding the Pacific coasts of the Americas. Scattered today in repositories worldwide, these 17th century pictorial and annotated volumes depicted all the major towns,...