The Dish Ran Away with the Spoon: Revisiting Unprovenienced Food Ways Artifacts from the Spanish Fleet Wrecks of Eighteenth Century Florida

Summary

The Spanish empire was the first European power to establish permanent settlements on several Caribbean islands and coasts of North America, that flourished as New World colonies and facilitated prosperous trade between the New and Old Worlds. The distance between Spain and the colonies led to differences in the lifestyles and customs of these frontier spaces. Archaeological investigations both on land and underwater have yielded numerous pieces of material culture, reflecting Spanish life and trade in the territories of Florida and the Caribbean. This presentation will build off of Dr. Russell K. Skowronek’s 1982 Master of Arts thesis, referring to shipwrecks as "floating frontier communities," and address that theory by examining artifacts associated with colonial Spanish food ways in two shipwreck assemblages from the early eighteenth century coast of Florida. 

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2017   •
• South Florida Shipwreck Research and Advancing Frontiers

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

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PaperId(s): 542