Exploring the Social and Physical Landscapes of Colonial New Mexico
Author(s): Heather Trigg; Kyle W. Edwards
Year: 2015
Summary
Reshaping the settlement landscape is a significant aspect of the colonial encounter in that it provided the ecological context for social interactions. In the American Southwest, the Spaniards’ introduction of Eurasian plants and animals as well as new land use practices had a profound effect on the physical and cultural environment. We use palynological data from a 500-year period that illustrates both the impact of indigenous Pueblo peoples’ engagement with the pre-colonial landscape as well as subsequent changes in the La Cienega area southwest of Santa Fe. Combined with macrobotanical evidence from nearby Spanish colonial sites, we use the palynological information to explore the origins of landscape changes that relate to the Spaniards introductions of crops, weeds, and livestock during the 17th and 18th centuries and their engagement with nearby Pueblo peoples.
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Exploring the Social and Physical Landscapes of Colonial New Mexico. Heather Trigg, Kyle W. Edwards. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Seattle, Washington. 2015 ( tDAR id: 434152)
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Keywords
General
New Mexico
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Paleoethnobotany
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Spanish
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Colonial
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 520