Measuring Change in the New Mexican Early Spanish Colonial Period: A View from the Isleta Pueblo Mission Convento Fauna

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Ann F. Ramenofsky: Papers in Honor of a Non-Normative Career" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Spanish colonization of New Mexico unquestionably transformed indigenous populations, New Mexican environments, and the Spanish settlers themselves. The details of how and when these changes unfolded, however, have remained elusive, particularly in the Early Spanish Colonial Period (AD 1598 – 1680). Many of the challenges to identifying change in this time and place are rooted in problems related to units of analysis. In this paper, we use the 17th century faunal assemblage from the Isleta Pueblo Mission Complex (Bernalillo County, New Mexico) to present a snapshot of foodways in a mission environment in the Early Spanish Colonial period. In doing so, we both illustrate and propose solutions to the challenges of identifying change associated with Spanish colonization.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• Ann F. Ramenofsky: Papers in Honor of a Non-Normative Career

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Abstract Id(s): 23755