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Fort San Juan and the limits of empire : colonialism and household practice at the Berry Site / edited by Robin A. Beck, Christopher B. Rodning, and David G. Moore.

Summary:

The private face of the Spaniard/Indian encounter is revealed through excavated features containing the remains of daily life at Cuenca, while its extraordinarily well-preserved buildings reveal much about relations between Indians and Spaniards and how these relations changed over the course of 18 months.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780813061597
  • ISBN: 0813061598
  • Physical Description: xxi, 423 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, charts ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-409) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
I. Joara, Cuenca, and Fort San Juan -- Introduction / Robin A. Beck, David G. Moore, and Christopher B. Rodning -- II. Who they were : situating the colonial encounter -- Joara in time and space / Robin A. Beck, David G. Moore, and Christopher B. Rodning -- Recollections of the Juan Pardo Expeditions : the 1584 Domingo de León account / John E. Worth -- III. Where they lived : household archaeology at Fort San Juan -- The built environment of the Berry Site Spanish compound / Robin A. Beck, David G. Moore, Christopher B. Rodning, Sarah Sherwood, and Elizabeth T. Horton -- Wood selection and technology in Structures 1 and 5 / Lee Ann Newsom -- IV. What they ate : politics, food, and provisioning --People, plants, and early frontier food / Gayle J. Fritz -- Fauna, subsistence, and survival at Fort San Juan / Heather A. Lapham -- V. What they carried : material culture and household practice --Spanish material culture from the Berry Site / Christopher B. Rodning, Robin A. Beck, David G. Moore, and James Legg -- Native material culture from the Spanish compound / David G. Moore, Christopher B. Rodning, and Robin A. Beck -- VI. What they left behind : fragments of the colonial encounter --Conclusions / Robin A. Beck, Christopher B. Rodning, and David G. Moore.
Subject:
Pardo, Juan, active 16th century.
Excavations (Archaeology) > North Carolina > Burke County.
Spaniards > North Carolina > Burke County > Antiquities.
Indians of North America > North Carolina > Burke County > Antiquities.
Fortification > North Carolina > Burke County > History > 16th century.
Excavations (Archaeology) > North Carolina > Morganton Region.
Burke County (N.C.) > Antiquities.
North Carolina > Discovery and exploration > Spanish.
Morganton Region (N.C.) > Antiquities.

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