Indo-Hispanic Dynamics: From Contact to Colonial Interaction in the Greater Antilles |
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Authors: | Roberto Valcárcel Rojas Alice V M Samson Menno L P Hoogland |
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Institution: | 1. Departamento Centro Oriental de Arqueología, Ministerio de Ciencias, Tecnología y Medio Ambiente, Holguín, Cuba 2. Caribbean Research Group, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands 3. The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK
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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. |
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