Archaeology of early colonial interaction at El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba
By: Roberto Valcárcel Rojas ; foreword by William F. Keegan
Series: Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780813061566
Subjects: Human remains (Archaeology); Excavations (Archaeology); Indians of the West Indies; Antiquities; Social archaeology
Description: This work enables scholars to examine how the encomienda labor draft worked in the hinterlands, without the everyday presence of Spanish overlords or priests. It allows not only the first opportunity to bring the key research at El Chorro to the attention of the international scholarly community, adding a new dimension to our understanding of the encomienda system, but also to reveal the earliest moments of the hybrid Cuban culture that persists today.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: From contact to the colonial situation; title: Cuba: the Spanish colonization; title: El Chorro de Maíta: a first look; title: Recognizing the living space; title: The cemetery: death and human diversity; title: Mortuary practices in a colonial environment; title: An Indian town in times of the encomienda; title: Summary and conclusions.