Archaeology and Paleoethnobotany of The Indian Family Housing Site at Mission San Juan Bautista

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Chronicles of Colonialism: Unraveling Temporal Variability in Indigenous Experiences of Colonization in California Missions", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Established in 1797, Mission San Juan Bautista was the fifteenth of the Spanish missions built in Alta California. From the time of its construction until its secularization in 1835, Indigenous peoples lived in, ate at, created homes around and fostered community within an area of the Mission landscape that we now call the Indian Family Housing Site. Four archaeological research projects have been undertaken at this location over the last sixty years, and this talk will discuss the most recent of those programs which began in the fall of 2020. While providing a holistic overview of the material types recovered from the site and how these remains provide evidence of persistence among the Indigenous mission inhabitants, I will also discuss preliminary results from archaeobotanical sampling at the site with an emphasis on food plant choices.  

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
• Chronicles of Colonialism: Unraveling Temporal Variability in Indigenous Experiences of Colonization in California Missions

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