Situating The Copper On The Borderlands Of New Spain (COTBONS) Project In Historical Archaeology

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

For decades, copper vessels have been the subject of archaeological enquiry for those studying American, Basque, and French fur trade era sites in colonial America. Seven years into the COTBONS Project, those findings have little if any application for those who study the Spanish borderlands. Since 2017 the COTBONS Project documented and analyzed, with pXRF, more than 500 hundred copper vessels and vessel fragments from archaeological and museum collections in Arizona, California, Florida, New Mexico, and Texas. In this presentation, the evidence from these materials is contextualized vis-à-vis the earlier research of historical archaeologists. Consideration will be given to how “conserved” archaeological materials can be problematic in archaeometry.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
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