Through the Priest’s Ear: Examining the History and Archaeology of San Ignacio’s Jesuit Church (1610-2017) –Bogotá, Colombia
Author(s): Julie K. Wesp; Felipe Gaitan; Jimena Lobo Guerrero; Chelsi Slotten
Year: 2018
Summary
This paper offers an overview of the exceptional collection of archaeological and bioarchaeological data recently recovered in salvage excavations carried out during the restoration of the San Ignacio Jesuit church in Bogotá, Colombia –one of the most important monuments erected in the Spanish colonial province of New Granada. The archaeological record documented in San Ignacio encapsulates over four centuries of domestic, funerary, spiritual, and bodily practices that speak to complex processes of identity construction in a particularly isolated urban area of the Spanish colonial empire. By exploring the heuristic and analytical possibilities of this rich set of skeletal, artifactual, and archival information, this paper testifies to recent advancements and future avenues of research in Latin American historical archaeology.
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Through the Priest’s Ear: Examining the History and Archaeology of San Ignacio’s Jesuit Church (1610-2017) –Bogotá, Colombia. Julie K. Wesp, Felipe Gaitan, Jimena Lobo Guerrero, Chelsi Slotten. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441397)
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Keywords
General
Colombia
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Funerary Practices
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Spanish Colonies
Geographic Keywords
COLOMBIA
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South America
Temporal Keywords
17th-19th c
Spatial Coverage
min long: -79.05; min lat: -4.237 ; max long: -66.87; max lat: 12.459 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 885