Colonial Ventures and Native Voices: Legacies from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2023
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Colonial Ventures and Native Voices: Legacies from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires," at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Centuries of Spanish and Portuguese exploration and conquest across five continents created everlasting global legacies long after colonial territories were relinquished. Whether by choice or coercion, diverse populations interacted with Iberian colonizers via conquest, trade, and religious missions, which had a profound effect on indigenous communities and their descendants. This session seeks to bring together scholars focusing on research themes of community migration, settlement, conversion, creolization, and/or resistance with a focus on Hispanic and Portuguese colonization between the 15th and 18th centuries.
Other Keywords
Aztec •
Missions •
Firearms •
Colonization •
Spanish Colonial •
Spanish •
Florida •
Coronado expedition •
Portuguese •
Pueblo resistance
Geographic Keywords
American Southwest •
Southeastern United States •
Lower Zambezi, Mozambique •
Mexico, Carribean, Southeastern U.S. •
Northeastern Brazil
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Artifact and Identity: Seeking Cultural Markers on the Vázquez de Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542 (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Ventures and Native Voices: Legacies from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In early 1540, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado led a large exploration from Mexico’s west coast into the American Southwest, searching for an overland route to Asia. Coronado enlisted 360 Europeans and 1,300 or more Mexican Indigenous soldiers (indios amigos) to achieve Spain’s goal of...
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Colonizers and Colonized: Indigenous Allies and the New Spanish Colonial Culture of the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna y Arellano Settlement on Pensacola Bay, Florida (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Ventures and Native Voices: Legacies from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Indigenous allies on Spanish expeditions of expansion, conquest, and colonization in the Americas throughout the 16th century are well documented. The Tristán de Luna Settlement effort was dispatched from New Spain to La Florida with 12 ships and 1,500 colonists. Luna’s complement included...
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A Palimpsest of Pits and Posts: Excavations at Mission San Buena Bentura de Palica in St. Augustine, Florida (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Ventures and Native Voices: Legacies from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the early 1700s, communities of Christianized Native Americans living in Spanish mission communities across the southeastern U.S. were being actively attacked by the British and their Native allies. By 1706, the chain of missions was reduced to only a handful of refugee settlements,...
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Portuguese Introduced Firearms Amongst The Societies Of The Lower Zambezi From The Early Seventeenth To Late Nineteenth Centuries (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Ventures and Native Voices: Legacies from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Beginning in the sixteenth century, the introduction of firearms into the lower Zambezi by the Portuguese produced both transient and lasting impacts for this area of central Mozambique. These European weapons were often, though not always, eagerly adopted by local communities where they...
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Tupinambá, Dutch and Portuguese in Colonial Brazil: preliminary thoughts on the Guaibituguçu archaeological site, Alagoas (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Ventures and Native Voices: Legacies from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The study of colonial entanglements in northeastern Brazil is an underdeveloped area of historical archaeological research which has reinforced, or at least not questioned, indigenous histories as marked by conflict, acculturation, and subsequent absorption into society, leaving government...