Pluralistic Communities, Coalescence, and Population Aggregation at Mission Santa Catalina de Guale

Summary

Recent ethnohistorical research on the Spanish mission communities of La Florida has done much to document and elucidate complicated patterns of indigenous population relocations. These migrations, aggregations, and dispersals—due to multiple factors such as epidemics, Spanish reducción policies, and flight from antagonistic native groups—resulted in the formation of complex and diverse colonial social networks. At Mission Santa Catalina de Guale (GA), the most pronounced of these was the 1663-1666 aggregation with Mission San Diego de Satuache. Discussing this event, and drawing on recent geophysical and archaeological evidence, this paper discusses the aggregated, pluralistic community that formed on St. Catherines Island during the latter portion of the late 17th century.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• 2015 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David Hurst Thomas

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