Natives, Europeans, and Africans in colonial Campeche
Subtitle: history and archaeology
By: edited by Vera Tiesler, Pilar Zabala, and Andrea Cucina ; foreword by Ney Antonia Canto Vega.
Contributors: Tiesler, Vera.; Zabala, Pilar.; Cucina, Andrea, 1966-
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813034928
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology) -- Mexico -- Campeche; Human remains (Archaeology) -- Mexico -- Campeche; Campeche (Campeche, Mexico) -- History; Campeche (Campeche, Mexico) -- Population -- History; Campeche (Campeche, Mexico) -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: life and death in the town of Campeche during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Vera Tiesler, Pilar Zabala, and Andrea Cucina; title: Mapping colonial life in the main plaza of Campeche / Michel Antochiw; title: The first temple of Our Lady of the Conception in the villa of San Francisco de Campeche / Heber Ojeda Mas and Carlos Huitz Baqueiro; title: Dying in the colonies : death, burial, and mortuary patterning in Campeche's main plaza / Vera Tiesler and Pilar Zabala; title: Living conditions, mortality, and social organization in Campeche during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Mónica Rodríguez Perez; title: Social inequality in the early Spanish colony : oral pathologies and dental enamel hypoplasia in the skeletal sample from Campeche / Andrea Cucina; title: Identity, alienation, and integration : body modifications in the early colonial population from Campeche / Vera Tiesler and Iván Oliva Arias; title: The African presence in Yucatan : sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Pilar Zabala; title: Isotopic evidence of the African origins and diet of some early inhabitants of Campeche, Mexico / T. Douglas Price and James H. Burton; title: Final considerations : unearthing early colonial Campeche / Matthew Restall; title: Appendix 1. Excavation of Campeche's central plaza, levels II, III, and IV; title: Appendix 2. Lists of burials and their locations, funerary modalities, and respective chrono-vital data and comments; title: Appendix 3. List of burials from the cemetery of Campeche's main plaza and their ethnic affiliation.