Acknowledgments
The present volume is the outcome of the session entitled ‘Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas’ organized at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from March 29–April 2, 2017. The session was organized in the context of the Synergy project NEXUS1492: New World Encounters in a Globalizing World financially supported by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC-NEXUS1492 (grant agreement n° 319209) and directed by Prof. Dr. Corinne L. Hofman, and the NWO PhDs in the Humanities project Values and Valuables (PGW-13-02) carried out by Floris W.M. Keehnen. The aim of the session was to bring together scholars working with the topic of early colonial encounters in the Americas from a material culture perspective, particularly based on novel field data, and to contribute to global dialogues about the archaeology of colonialism.
We want to thank all the participants to the SAA session in Vancouver and the additional contributors to this volume, as well as session discussants Craig N. Cipolla and Neal Ferris. We are grateful for the thoughtful comments and useful suggestions made by two anonymous reviewers of this volume, as well as the support and guidance offered to us by Brill Publishing in realizing this project. Finally, we would like to thank Konrad Antczak, Valeria Corona, Andrzej Antczak and Arie Boomert for their help with the Spanish-English translations and Melissa Riesen for proofreading the English texts. Menno Hoogland is acknowledged for his help with many of the figures and great thanks to Emma de Mooij for her excellent help with the editorial work.
Corinne L. Hofman and Floris W.M. Keehnen
Leiden, September 2018