Colonialism (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia Haines.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Approaches to Slavery and Unfree Labour in Africa" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents a case study of an African/Indian Ocean plantation that focuses on daily lives of indentured laborers during the 19th century. Mauritius’s Bras d’Eau National Park was a sugar estate that functioned from 1786 to 1868. During the 1830s, French colonial landowners shifted from a reliance on enslaved...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Kaeding. Eleanor Harrison-Buck.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology and the History of Human-Environment Interaction in the Lower Belize River Watershed" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Throughout the colonial period the Mérida-based Spanish administration organized and launched multiple entradas headed south into the Petén. These entradas ranged from relatively small groups of religious missionaries and their envoys, to private armies funded by opportunists seeking a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Lena Jones. Jonathan Dombrosky. Laura Steele.

This is an abstract from the "Ann F. Ramenofsky: Papers in Honor of a Non-Normative Career" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Spanish colonization of New Mexico unquestionably transformed indigenous populations, New Mexican environments, and the Spanish settlers themselves. The details of how and when these changes unfolded, however, have remained elusive, particularly in the Early Spanish Colonial Period (AD 1598 – 1680). Many of the challenges...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ty M Tempalski.

There are few places in the early-modern Atlantic World where humans encountered an entirely new ecosystem. The isolated, uninhabited mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda is one such rare case. Accounts from sixteenth-century Iberian sailors who first visited Bermuda describe an environment veritably teeming with life, and the Virginia-bound settlers shipwrecked there in 1609 similarly marveled at nature’s bounty. Thanks to high rates of preservation, SIAP has uncovered vast amounts of animal remains...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Colum J Coleman.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes Above and Below in Northern Contexts (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Colonialism was not the invention of the trans-Atlantic empires of the 16th century. Colonialism has existed in what is known as Western Civilization for almost as long as Western Civilization has existed; dating as far back as the Archaic Period, circa 650 to 480 BCE, of Greece. This work is to serve as a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robin Meyer-Lorey.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi; the 700-square-mile inland sea was the most populous region in California prior to contact with Europeans. Now, the Tulare Lake basin contains some of the most intensely modified land in the world, served by the largest irrigation system in the world as part of the most productive...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Ballance.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. “El Lazarillo de Ciegos Caminantes” (1775) describes the colonial highway from Buenos Aires to Lima. Authored by a Spanish official, Alonso Carrió de la Vandera, the document records a uniquely elite experience of travel. The author describes a journey taken from Buenos Aires to Lima structured by the posta, a colonial system of lodging and transport...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sylvia Cheever.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Santa Bárbara mine in Huancavelica, Peru was exploited by Spanish colonizers from the 16th through the early 19th century. Cinnabar (HgS), formed from mercury and sulfur, is the most common source-ore for the extraction of mercury. Mercury is highly toxic, and while cinnabar is relatively stable, there is great potential for mercury absorption in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicolas Delsol.

This is an abstract from the "Animal Bones to Human Behavior" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The introduction of cattle soon after the Spanish invasion had numerous and dramatic consequences over the society in New Spain. The historical scholarship on this topic emphasizes the prominent role of cattle ranching, which found its most iconic development in the great central Mexican haciendas that emerged over the sixteenth century and that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Angel Alvarez.

This is an abstract from the "Materialidades, representaciones, vegetales y animales del mundo Colonial de Andinoamérica y Mesoamérica" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El barroco es una época en la que plantas y vegetales pueden resguardar el secreto profundo del orden natural. Una naturaleza que no puede ser explicada, calculada o dominada completamente por el ser humano, pues almacena altos grados de inefabilidad y misterio. Por tal motivo, la...

DATASET Heather Walder.

This spreadsheet was exported from the Filemaker Pro database and contains all of the information contained in that database except the images. The join table of image filenames linked to database ID for artifacts is uploaded as a separate file, as is a pdf of the database including the images associated with each record. A fully functional copy of the database (created in Filemaker Pro 13) is available from the author upon request. The Filemaker database filetype (*.fmp12) is not supported by...

DATASET Heather Walder.

This is a two-column spreadsheet that lists the name of each image file (*.jpg) associated with each artifact in the metal attribute database. Artifacts are sorted by their database ID (HW-00001 to HW-03410). The actual image files are saved in a Filemaker Pro database, available upon request. Individual artifact images may be located using the database ID number in this table and requested from the author.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicolas Lessard. Adelphine Bonneau. Aude Mongiatti.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. One of the first French colonial attempts in North America led to the construction of a fort close to the current Quebec City, by Jacques Cartier and Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval between 1541 and 1543. French settlers, under the command of François Ier, aimed to find precious metals in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tomos Ll Evans.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1953, three colonial archaeologists would perform extensive fieldwork in the sacred city of Ile-Ife, Nigeria. In cooperation with the Ooni (King) of the city, the researchers embarked on a mission to acquire and understand the resplendent artworks of Ile-Ife, revive and reinvent aspects of the city's cultural heritage, and develop a new museum to centralise the discoveries being...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Todd Ahlman. Suzanne Sanders. Fred van Keulen. Ashley H. McKeown.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Military Sites Archaeology in the Caribbean: Studies of Colonialism, Globalization, and Multicultural Communities" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Amsterdam was a small military and commercial fort on the west coast of the Dutch island of Sint Eustatius in the northern Lesser Antilles. The fort’s primary purpose was to protect Oranje Bay, where ships anchored to bring goods to the Lower Town...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Whalen. T. L. Thurston.

Post-Medieval ethnic identities in the British Isles display similarities and differences. Across the landscape of Northern Ireland, where indigenous people were subject to English, Scottish, and Welsh colonization, a sharing of material culture is evident across all groups. For example, English fine earthenwares, locally produced coarse earthenwares and locally made tobacco pipes are equally distributed, regardless of property owners’ ethnicity. This suggests that a culturally blended...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Audrey Horning.

Examinations of the imposition of colonial ideologies actualised through the mechanism of plantation, or enforced settlement, in Ireland often highlight plantation as a stark process that was founded upon, and thus fully accommodated to, a fully-fledged version of mercantile capitalism. Yet on the ground, engagements between peoples reveal that ideologies were incompletely applied, plantation plans seldom realised, and new economic formulations incompletely rendered. On close examination,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Kennedy. Maria Smith. Di Hu.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Surveillance: Seeing and Power in the Material World" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Spanish Empire drew on multiple forms of forced Indigenous labor in their American colonies during the sixteenth–eighteenth centuries. In the Andes, forced Indigenous labor was used to mine silver, craft textiles, grow sugar cane, and produce wine, among many other tasks critical to the colonial economy. Crucial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cynthia Otis Charlton. Patricia Fournier.

This is an abstract from the "After Cortés: Archaeological Legacies of the European Invasion in Mesoamerica" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Small ceramic figurines are ubiquitous in the preconquest central highlands of Mexico and are seemingly tied to household ritual. The arrival of the Spanish caused immense change at some levels, some reflected in these small objects. Archaeological evidence shows figurines briefly transitioning, but their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Curt Carbonell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Entry into cultural resource management (CRM) in British Columbia (BC) requires a bachelor of arts or science in anthropology or archaeology, academic streams not typically associated with high employability. Yet, archaeology in BC is booming. Industries traditionally employing BC archaeologists outside of academia, such as forestry and mining, must now...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isobel Coats.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located in the foothills of the Manzano Mountains in southeastern New Mexico, the site of Comanche Springs has been an object of research and excavation spanning five decades. However, the social fabric of the people who once occupied this seventeenth-century colonial settlement remain unclear. Was this relatively isolated population an exemplary ‘hybrid’...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wolfgang Alders.

This is an abstract from the "Islands around Africa: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists in the Pacific have viewed islands as “laboratories” for studying social, agricultural, and ecological transformations. Can a similar approach be applied to the near-shore island environments of coastal East Africa, and what might island case studies contribute to broader anthropological understandings of East...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alaina Wibberly.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The settler colonial history of the Mojave Desert may be defined less by its expansion and more by its various failures and withdrawals. Drawing on a dataset of historic refuse sites that spans two centuries and three million acres, this paper uses spatial modeling to map the landscape’s trajectory toward waste-land. The trash dumps and mining ruins that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex Garcia-Putnam. Melissa Murphy. Todd Surovell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Myriad reasons for the native depopulation of the Americas have been cited, chief amongst them is the spread of Old World diseases like smallpox (Variola major) with the arrival of Europeans. Ethnohistorical documents are limited in understanding the direct effects of infectious diseases at the community level, especially in small indigenous towns where...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clay Mathers.

For more than 170 years, archaeologists and historians have offered a range of arguments in an attempt to locate the site of the 1541 siege of Moho. Although historical records of the Vázquez de Coronado entrada provide tantalizing clues about the whereabouts of this major battle, generations of scholars have often used an odd amalgam of description, assertion, and evidence to postulate the geographic location of this significant historical site. Carroll Riley’s interest in the deep history of...