Figures
- 1.1Map of the circum-Caribbean and adjacent areas included in this volume with dates of initial European settlement 12
- 2.1Map of the Bahamas and San Salvador Island 38
- 2.2Green glass beads from the Long Bay Site, San Salvador Island 40
- 2.3Reconstructed Spanish olive jar from the Long Bay Site, San Salvador Island 41
- 3.1Map showing the locations of early colonial indigenous sites on Hispaniola 61
- 3.2Cache of artifacts found at El Variar, Azua, Dominican Republic 69
- 3.3Early colonial ceramic forms found at Juan Dolio, San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic 70
- 4.1Map of Sevilla la Nueva and Maima, Jamaica, with areas excavated 91
- 4.2Examples of traditional Taíno pottery recovered from excavations at Maima, Jamaica 92
- 4.3New Seville ware recovered from Governors Fort at Sevilla la Nueva, Jamaica 94
- 5.1Indigenous vessel that copies a European form. El Yayal site, Cuba 111
- 5.2Glazed olive jar ceramic fragments. El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba 112
- 5.3Sheets of non-ferrous metal, possibly brass. El Yayal site, Cuba 113
- 5.4European tools. El Yayal site, Cuba 113
- 5.5Horseshoes. Alcalá site, Cuba 114
- 6.1Map of Hispaniola 125
- 6.2The chaîne opératoire of ceramics 128
- 6.3Olive jar sherds from El Cabo, Dominican Republic 129
- 6.4New forms and decorations showing Amerindian-African and European inter-cultural dynamics from Concepción de la Vega, Dominican Republic 133
- 6.5Pottery sherd from La Vega with a multi-banded pattern of fine lines, created by dragging a comb-like tool over the surface 134
- 7.1Islands and sites. Top Margarita, Coche, and Cubagua Islands in the Caribbean; bottom: sites referred to in this chapter 148
- 7.2Sites and materials as referred to in this chapter 155
- 7.3Selection of primarily sixteenth-century European ceramics from Margarita and Coche islands 156
- 7.4Selection of late sixteenth/seventeenth-century materials from Margarita, La Tortuguita site, Venezuela 157
- 7.5Indigenous transformative wares (sixteenth-seventeenth century) and criollo-ware (eighteenth-nineteenth century) 158
- 8.1The area of Santa María de la Antigua del Darién, Colombia, formed by its two sections, Darién and Santa María de la Antigua 181
- 8.2Rectangular anomalies at the site of Darién and another anomaly identified in the area 183
- 8.3Indigenous-made pottery with vegetal motif of Spanish inspiration, Darién 183
- 8.4Santa María de la Antigua, signs of burning in excavation units F (2015) and H (2016) 186
- 8.5Ritual caches in the post-abandonment levels of Santa María de la Antigua 187
- 9.1Plan of Ciudad Vieja, El Salvador, showing natural topography, the reconstructed sixteenth-century urban grid plan, and the archaeological site grid 203
- 9.2Map of modern town of Caluco showing distribution of sixteenth-century materials 206
- 9.3Hybrid brimmed plate, a very popular ceramic form at Ciudad Vieja 208
- 9.4Fragment of Venetian crystal goblet with vetro a fili decoration 211
- 10.1Map of Honduras showing locations of main sites mentioned in text 222
- 10.2Plan of the Rio Claro site showing ditch surrounding compact groups of mounds 225
- 11.1Map of the Maya area showing the locations of the most prominent settlements and localities mentioned in the text 240
- 11.2A selection of metal objects found at Lamanai 242
- 11.3Reconstruction of the sixteenth-century visita church at Tipu. A selection of glass beads from Christian burials associated with the church at Tipu 244
- 11.4(a) Structure N11-18 at Lamanai, where many European objects have been found; (b) Gilded brass book hinges decorated with figurative medallions 250
- 11.5Partial cow mandible found in deposits dated to ca. AD 1650 at Zacpeten, Guatemala 253
- 11.6(a) Two views of a Spanish olive jar dated to ca. AD 1540–1630, ritually killed and deposited within a cave in the Roaring Creek Valley; (b) European rapier sword that was cached in a small cave located in the Roaring Creek Valley 255
- 12.1The location of Tula, Hidalgo in central Mexico 264
- 12.2Relative locations of religious monuments in Tula, Hidalgo 269
- 12.3Excavations in Tula, Hidalgo 272
- 12.4Diagnostic Aztec-tradition and colonial ceramics 276
- 12.5Aztec-tradition Texcoco Molded-Filleted style sahumdor (censer) 277
- 13.1Late pre-Hispanic vessel shapes in the Valley of Mexico 287
- 13.2Shapes of early colonial serving vessels from the Valley of Mexico 289
- 13.3Patterns of decoration on late pre-Hispanic ceramics from the Valley of Mexico 292
- 13.4Patterns of decoration on early colonial wares from the Valley of Mexico 298
- 13.5Patterns of decoration on early colonial Black-on-Orange wares from the Valley of Mexico 301
- 14.1Frequency and chronology of selected sixteenth-century native and slave-related uprisings in the Americas 313
- 14.2Schematic models of indigenous-European exchange in the American Southwest and Southeast 315
- 14.3Shaped Mexican ceramic fragment with bird motif 320
- 15.1Map of the Guianas 333
- 15.2Map of Eastern French Guiana 337
- 15.3Detail of an anonymous Dutch map of the Eastern Guianas 339
- 15.4“Comment les Caribes tirent le poisson.” Engraving taken from Jean Mocquet 341
- 15.5Glass beads found in Aristé urns on the Lower Oyapock 351
- 16.1Map of the insular Caribbean with detail of Puerto Rico, and the Leeward and Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles 360
- 16.2Radiocarbon dates for Argyle, St. Vincent and La Poterie, Grenada 369
- 16.3(a) Map of St. Vincent with Cayo sites; (b) seventeenth-century map of Grenada by Blondel with ethnohistoric evidence of Carib/Kalinago settlements; (c) map of Grenada with Cayo sites 370
- 16.4Cayo pottery from La Poterie, Grenada 373
- 16.5European trade wares from Grenada and St. Vincent 374
Tables
- 2.1Spanish activity in the Bahama archipelago (1492–1530) 34
- 2.2European artifact descriptions 41
- 3.1Overview of European materials found at early colonial indigenous sites on Hispaniola 62
- 4.1Spanish and Taíno pottery recovered from three excavation areas at Sevilla la Nueva, Jamaica 93
- 14.1Typical non-perishable artifact types and raw materials used as trade goods in the early Southwestern and Southeastern entradas (ca. AD 1500–1599) 311
- 14.2Comparison of the Spanish/European presence in the US Southeast and Southwest during the sixteenth century 312
- 15.1Overview of Nations dwelling in the Oyapock basin 338
- 15.2Overview of trade goods shipped to the Guianas 346