Eat This In Remembrance: The Zooarchaeological Analysis of Secular and Religious Estancias in 17th- Century New Mexico

Summary

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

During the early colonial period of New Mexico (1598-1680) secular and religious governing bodies developed simultaneously to manage the colony, the colonists, and the indigenous people already residing in the region. One of the resulting differences between secular and religious households was in labor rules and structure, especially regarding the Pueblos and other conscripted or enslaved indigenous laborers. To better understand the lived differences between secular and religious households, faunal remains from LA 20,000, a 17th-century Spanish estancia near Santa Fe were compared to those from Awatovi Mission, in present day Arizona. The data collected from these specimens help illuminate foodways and how the differing strategies between the secular and religious households are affected by identity, politics, food availability, and social structure. This work can be used to help understand the various strategies of power that Spanish colonists utilized in the larger context of Spanish colonialism.

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• 2020 SHA General Sessions   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

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PaperId(s): 786