Colonial Ventures and Native Voices: Legacies from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires

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.