Archaeology of early colonial interaction at El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba / Roberto Valcárcel Rojas ; foreword by William F. Keegan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valcárcel Rojas, Roberto, 1968- author.

Keegan, William F., author of introduction, etc.

Series:

Ripley P. Bullen series.

Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of the West Indies--Cuba--Holguín--Antiquities.

Indians of the West Indies.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Cuba--Holguín.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Human remains (Archaeology)--Cuba--Holguín.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Social archaeology--Cuba--Holguín.

Social archaeology.

Holguín (Cuba)--Antiquities.

Holguín (Cuba).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work enables scholars to examine how the encomienda labor draft worked in the hinterlands, without the everyday presence of Spanish overlords or priests. It allows not only the first opportunity to bring the key research at El Chorro to the attention of the international scholarly community, adding a new dimension to our understanding of the encomienda system, but also to reveal the earliest moments of the hybrid Cuban culture that persists today.

Contents:

Introduction

From contact to the colonial situation

Cuba: the Spanish colonization

El Chorro de Maíta: a first look

Recognizing the living space

The cemetery: death and human diversity

Mortuary practices in a colonial environment

An Indian town in times of the encomienda

Summary and conclusions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-5149-5

0-8130-5565-2

OCLC:

930269482