Missions (Other Keyword)

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18th-Century San Antonio Spanish Colonial Mission Complexes: An Evolution, American Revolution, and Tejano Ranchos1 (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sergio A. Iruegas.

Recent historical archaeology studies have provided new perspectives of indigenous interaction with Spanish Colonial Missions in the United States. By 1718, Texas colonists were the product of Spanish and native intermarriage for over 200 years before their arrival. Few studies have considered the multicultural aspects’ effect to the historic landscape and archaeological record. An emic perspective of how 18th-Century Tejano Ranchos evolved from the Spanish Mission complex has yet to be...

Acequias, Battlefields, And Missions, Oh My!: The Complexity Of Doing Urban Archaeology In San Antonio, Texas (2022)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ann M. Scott. Victoria C. Pagano. Caitlin A. Gulihur.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "From the Famed to the Forgotten: Exploring San Antonio’s Storied History Through Urban Archeology" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Under the San Antonio skyline lies buried a complex history of struggle. From military installations to missions and homesteading to subjugation, San Antonio offers urban archaeologists a variety of resources to discover, investigate, and share with the public. Projects in San...

Archaeological and Historical Overview: Chino Basin Municipal Water District (1973)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sannie Kenton.

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Archaeological Investigations of the San Pedro Acequia, San Antonio, Texas (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Augustine J. Frkuska, Jr..

Archaeology & Community Engagement at Mission Espada, San Antonio TX. (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelton Sheridan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the findings from two seasons of fieldwork at Mission Espada in San Antonio as well as preliminary results from comparative analysis of the living quarters of the priests and Indigenous living quarters at the mission in the 18th century. This comparison is part of a larger multiscalar project that examines the lived experiences of...

Archaeology and History of Alamo Plaza (1976)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne A. Fox. Feris A. Bass, Jr.. Thomas R. Hester.

Archaeology and Paleoethnobotany of The Indian Family Housing Site at Mission San Juan Bautista (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only GeorgeAnn M. DeAntoni.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Chronicles of Colonialism: Unraveling Temporal Variability in Indigenous Experiences of Colonization in California Missions", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Established in 1797, Mission San Juan Bautista was the fifteenth of the Spanish missions built in Alta California. From the time of its construction until its secularization in 1835, Indigenous peoples lived in, ate at, created homes around and fostered...

Archeological Resources in the Texas Coastal Lowlands and Littoral (1971)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alton K. Biggs.

Bering Land Bridge Historical Resource Study (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only G. Frank Williss.

A Beta Test of the North American Gunflint Inventory by Volunteer Citizen Scientists at San Antonio Missions National Historical Park (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan R Snow. Steve Davis.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archeology, Citizen Science, and the National Park Service" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2018 San Antonio Missions National Historical Park agreed to be a beta testing site for a new North American Gunflint Inventory Database project. This project is being developed by Steve Davis, publisher of the online journal Texas Archeology and History.org. It establishes a standard methodology for measuring and...

Building a Shared Database: The Comparative Mission Archaeology Portal (CMAP), Struggles, Successes, and Future Directions (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gifford Waters.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: How I Learned to Stop Digging and Love Old Collections" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Historical Archaeology program at the Florida Museum of Natural History recently launched the Comparative Mission Archaeology Portal (CMAP) as part of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant. Building off of and modifying the database created by the Digital Archaeological...

C.G.A. Oldendorp's History of the Mission of the Evangelical Brethren On the Caribbean Islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St. John (1987)

DOCUMENT Citation Only C. G. A. Oldendorp.

The Catechism of Time Discipline in the Franciscan Missions of La Florida (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Cobb. Gifford Waters.

Franciscan missions in La Florida have been characterized as struggling between an unresolved duality between their Christian obligations and their mandated support functions for the larger colony. We suggest that there was a dialectical symmetry between these demands. Catholicism introduced a new set of rhythms into the daily life of Indigenous communities centered on prayer, study, the sacraments, feast days, and other ongoing religious observances. This periodization of time and behavior...

Catholic Parishes and Colonization: A Frontier Parish in Grand Bay, Dominica (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steve Lenik.

The Catholic parishes that were established as units of ecclesiastical jurisdiction are among the range of institutions, including chartered companies, missions, and military installations, deployed by nation-states in the Americas to exert control over the daily lives of African, European, and indigenous peoples. As administrative units in the colonization of newly acquired territories in the Caribbean islands, parishes introduced administrative boundaries and religious personnel who intended...

Confronting the Challenge of Analyzing Museum Collections with Limited Archival Data in Southern Brazil (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evelyn R. Nimmo.

One of the major challenges in working with museum collections of excavated material is the paucity of information available about the original excavation. What value do these collections have without any context? This paper examines a case study of an archaeological collection from one of the first Spanish Jesuit missions founded in Southern Brazil, housed at the Paranaense Museum, Curitiba, Brazil. The mission, Santo Inacio Mini (1610 – 1631), was the largest in the province and was integral...

The Contents and Distribution of Middens at Mission Concepción, San Antonio, TX (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sebastian Salgado-Flores. Susan R Snow. Annette B. Romero.

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. This paper presents the results of recent archaeological testing and summarizes the findings of several decades of CRM excavations at the Franciscan Mission Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Acuña, which was re-located to San...

Creating and Contesting Male Personhood on the Last Spanish Colonial Frontier (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily D. Dylla.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Gender in Historical Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Gender roles were an especially visible aspect of Spanish Colonial evangelization in Alta California. Part of the worldview Franciscan missionaries attempted to impart to Indigenous neophyte communities was a particular model of manhood, rooted in medieval European ideology and medicant philosophy. Missionaries also...

Cultural Resources - History; Sundesert Nuclear Project, Phase I (1976)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clement W. Meighan.

Engendered Death: A Comprehensive Analysis of Identity in the Mission System of 17th Century Spanish Florida (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine L Brewer.

Personal identity, while always fluid, was especially so in the borderlands that made up seventeenth-century Spanish Florida due to the collision of many different cultures within the colonial system. The Spanish missions set up by the Franciscans who travelled to the frontier of Spanish territory in Florida served as places wherein the Apalachee, the Guale, and the Timucua could negotiate issues of identity such as gender, social status, and age. Analysis of cemetery populations excavated from...

Environmental Impact Evaluation Test Excavations at Sbr-1000 Yucaipa Valley County Water (1976)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia Martz.

Exploring a Glass and Ceramic Cache in the Native Barracks at Mission La Purísima Concepción: Inferences to Indigenous Negotiations of the Waning Spanish Frontier (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaitlin Brown.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Chronicles of Colonialism: Unraveling Temporal Variability in Indigenous Experiences of Colonization in California Missions", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1963/64, James Deetz conducted an examination of the Native adobe barracks at Mission La Purísima Concepción, where he uncovered a substantial concentration of glass and ceramic vessels under the floor in one apartment unit. Subsequent reevaluation of...

The Formation of Mission Indian Communities in South Central California: An Ethnohistorical Case Study (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Johnson.

The Mission Period in Spanish-Mexican California resulted in the breakdown of original independent native polities. Depopulation from introduced European diseases coupled with intermarriage between people from different tribal groups at the missions led to the disappearance of linguistic differences and the formation of new community identities named after the different missions. Alongside these processes of coalescence and ethnogenesis, political and traditional ceremonial activities...

From Source to Disposition: Olivella Shell Bead Economics within Missions Santa Cruz and Santa Clara. (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark G. Hylkema.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Chronicles of Colonialism: Unraveling Temporal Variability in Indigenous Experiences of Colonization in California Missions", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Shell beads made from Olivella biplicata have been important to ancestral Native Americans of the southern San Francisco Bay for nearly 10,000 years. Variations in types and assemblages are temporally diagnostic and well documented; however, continued...

Historical Resources in Three Southern California Counties (Sundesert Nuclear Project Power Transmission System) (1976)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clement W. Meighan.

Hunters, Soldiers, and Holy Men: Exploring the Gendered Politics of Mission Landscapes in Alta California (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Dylla.

Space was paramount to Spanish missionary work in 18th and 19th century Alta California. This mission system was designed to irreparably reshape the Indigenous conceptual universe into that of a Christo-European worldview, to transform Native peoples into gente de razón. In addition, missions were the setting against which ecclesiastical and military colonists were in constant contact, and missionaries also used space as a moralizing tool, in an attempt to reform the lax morals of soldiers...