1. Indo-Hispanic Dynamics: From Contact to Colonial Interaction in the Greater Antilles.
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Valcárcel Rojas, Roberto, Samson, Alice, and Hoogland, Menno
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INDIGENOUS peoples of the West Indies ,CROSS-cultural studies ,CULTURE diffusion ,HISTORICAL archaeology ,SPANISH colonies ,HISTORY of the West Indies ,HISTORY ,INDIGENOUS peoples of the Americas -- First contact with Europeans ,ANTIQUITIES ,HISTORY of the Americas - Abstract
Indo-Hispanic interaction is an essential issue in the colonial period in the Caribbean, but its study is currently marginalized as an offshoot of pre-Columbian archaeology. This state of affairs denies the indigenous contribution to the past and present ethnocultural composition of the region and privileges a colonial approach in scholarship. This paper reviews important aspects of the history of archaeological research on contact and colonial interaction in the Greater Antilles and its theoretical underpinnings. It also presents two recent archaeological case studies that show different facets of the interaction processes using new methodological approaches: El Cabo, Dominican Republic, with evidence of early contact, and El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba, a context of interethnic interaction under colonial conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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