Natives, Europeans, and Africans in Colonial Campeche: History and Archaeology Contributor(s): Tiesler, Vera (Editor), Zabala, Pilar (Editor), Cucina, Andrea (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0813034922 ISBN-13: 9780813034928 Publisher: University Press of Florida OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Library Binding Published: November 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - History | Latin America - Mexico |
Dewey: 972.64 |
LCCN: 2010009769 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 320 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "Based on a variety of sophisticated analyses, these funerary data reveal fascinating and often unexpected patterns that provide insights about social relations, health, diet, and body modifications of early colonial indigenous Maya and African populations of Campeche."--Janine Gasco, California State University, Dominguez Hills
"This multi-disciplinary study is as ambitious as it is timely. The close collaboration of respected ethnohistorians, archaeologists, and physical anthropologists from Mexico and the U.S. is enthusiastically applauded."--Joel W. Palka, University of Illinois, Chicago
The town of San Francisco de Campeche was founded in 1540 and during the first two centuries of the colonies served as one of the key Mexican ports of the Spanish Empire. The contributors to this volume have combed through archival written documents, architectural plans, maps, ceramic artifacts, and bioarchaeological data from human remains recovered at the original Catholic cemetery to reconstruct a dramatic story of colonial life and death.
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