Interacting in Cramped Spaces: Material Culture and Identity at the Mission San Joseph de Sapala

Summary

Accounts by 16th- and 17th-century explorers, missionaries, and government officials clearly illustrate the considerable amount of variability in indigenous cultures, ethnicities, and traditions found throughout the Southeast at contact. Beginning in the mid-17th century, many of these formerly dispersed groups began to coalesce around mission communities in modern Georgia and Florida. The historical narrative of the contraction and eventual destruction of the Spanish mission system in Florida describes numerous towns and communities from the mainland aggregating for a time on Sapelo Island, the site of the Mission San Joseph de Sapala. This paper investigates Mission period ceramic variability in an effort to evaluate the degree to which interactions in mission communities is reflected in the diversity of ceramic attributes.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)   •
• Investigating Interaction from Tunnacunnhee to Talaje: Papers in Honor of Richard W. Jefferies

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Abstract Id(s): 12146