Natives, Europeans, and Africans in Colonial Campeche : History and Archaeology /

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...

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Otros Autores: Cucina, Andrea, 1966-, Zabala Aguirre, Pilar, Tiesler, Vera
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Español
Publicado: Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Population.
Human remains (Archaeology)
Excavations (Archaeology)
Antiquities.
Human remains (Archaeology) > Mexico > Campeche.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Mexico > Campeche.
Mexico > Campeche (Campeche)
Campeche (Campeche, Mexico) > Antiquities.
Campeche (Campeche, Mexico) > Population > History.
Campeche (Campeche, Mexico) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: life and death in the town of Campeche during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Vera Tiesler, Pilar Zabala, and Andrea Cucina
  • Mapping colonial life in the main plaza of Campeche / Michel Antochiw
  • The first temple of Our Lady of the Conception in the villa of San Francisco de Campeche / Heber Ojeda Mas and Carlos Huitz Baqueiro
  • Dying in the colonies : death, burial, and mortuary patterning in Campeche's main plaza / Vera Tiesler and Pilar Zabala
  • Living conditions, mortality, and social organization in Campeche during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Mónica Rodríguez Perez
  • Social inequality in the early Spanish colony : oral pathologies and dental enamel hypoplasia in the skeletal sample from Campeche / Andrea Cucina
  • Identity, alienation, and integration : body modifications in the early colonial population from Campeche / Vera Tiesler and Iván Oliva Arias
  • The African presence in Yucatan : sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Pilar Zabala
  • Isotopic evidence of the African origins and diet of some early inhabitants of Campeche, Mexico / T. Douglas Price and James H. Burton
  • Final considerations : unearthing early colonial Campeche / Matthew Restall
  • Appendix 1. Excavation of Campeche's central plaza, levels II', III, and IV
  • Appendix 2. Lists of burials and their locations, funerary modalities, and respective chrono-vital data and comments
  • Appendix 3. List of burials from the cemetery of Campeche's main plaza and their ethnic affiliation.

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