Ollas and Inequality: Reflections on Space, Ceramics, and Power Relationships at the Sanchez site.

Summary

Spanish exploitation of Indigenous people’s labor was a foundational component of the initial colonization of New Mexico. Pueblo Indians and enslaved Plains peoples worked on Spanish public infrastructure projects, built Spanish Missions, tended friar’s livestock, and helped with the daily operations of outlying estancias. At the Sanchez site, evidence of daily labors can be seen in broken manos and metates scattered around the site, the presence of the adobe structures that were built by Pueblo Indians, and the distribution of Pueblo Indian ceramics in the Spanish home and adobe barn. By studying the spatial distribution of these materials throughout the Sanchez Site, this poster seeks to explore how labor exploitation was reinforced and perpetuated throughout the early colonial period.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Spatial Coverage

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 20788