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Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology Series Editor Charles E. Orser Jr. Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN, USA More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/5734 Sandra Montón-Subías • María Cruz Berrocal Apen Ruiz Martínez Editors Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism 1 3 Editors Sandra Montón-Subías Apen Ruiz Martínez Department of Humanities Universitat Oberta de Catalunya ICREA/Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona Barcelona Spain Spain María Cruz Berrocal Zukunftskolleg University of Konstanz Konstanz Germany ISSN 1574-0439 Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology ISBN 978-3-319-21884-7 ISBN 978-3-319-21885-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-21885-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015957260 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Acknowledgements Our most heartfelt thanks to all the contributors in this volume for their dedicated effort and collaboration through all the phases of the manuscript. Most of them were also present in the workshop that, with the same title, was celebrated in Barcelona in June 2013, which is the basis for the present book. Many thanks, as well, to Sandra Lozano and Cinta Campos (Institut Universitari dʼHistòria Jaume Vicens Vives) for their invaluable help with the logistics of this workshop. Alex Coello, Manel Ollé, Joan Pau Rubiés, and Lluis Abejez helped discussing questions related to the history of the period. Our most sincere thanks to the four of them. This book was partly made possible by support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity (Ref. HAR2012–31927) and the Catalan Agency for Research and Development (AGAUR, MIDARC-SGR 835). v Contents 1 T owards a Comparative Approach to Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism .................................................................. 1 Sandra Montón-Subías, María Cruz Berrocal and Apen Ruiz Part I A rchaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism in the Americas 2 Displacing Dominant Meanings in the Archaeology of Urban Policies and Emergence of Santafé de Bogotá (Colombia) ................... 11 Monika Therrien 3 T he Material Worlds of Colonizers in New Spain ................................ 39 Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría 4 Historical Archaeology and the Politics of Empowerment in Venezuela ............................................................... 61 Kay Tarble de Scaramelli 5 T houghts on Early Spanish Colonialism Through Two American Case Studies: Basque Fisheries (Canada) and Sancti Spiritus Settlement (Argentina) .................................................. 93 Agustín Azkarate, Sergio Escribano-Ruiz, Iban Sánchez-Pinto and Verónica Benedet Part II A rchaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism in Africa 6 T he Archaeology of the Early Castilian Colonialism in Atlantic Africa. The Canary Islands and Western Barbary (1478–1526) ................................................................ 119 Jorge Onrubia Pintado and María del Cristo González Marrero vii viii Contents 7 T he Jesuit Mission to Ethiopia (1557–1632) and the Origins of Gondärine Architecture (Seventeenth–Eighteenth Centuries) ........ 153 Victor M. Fernández 8 Colonial Encounters in Spanish Equatorial Africa (Eighteenth–Twentieth Centuries).......................................................... 175 Alfredo González-Ruibal, Llorenç Picornell Gelabert and Manuel Sánchez-Elipe Part III Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism in the Pacific 9 Beginning Historical Archaeology in Vanuatu: Recent Projects on the Archaeology of Spanish, French, and Anglophone Colonialism ......................................................................... 205 James Flexner, Matthew Spriggs, Stuart Bedford and Marcelin Abong 10 Spanish Colonial History and Archaeology in the Mariana Islands: Echoes from the Western Pacific .............................................. 229 James M. Bayman and John A. Peterson 11 The Failed Sixteenth Century Spanish Colonizing Expeditions to the Solomon Islands, Southwest Pacific: The Archaeologies of Settlement Process and Indigenous Agency .............. 253 Martin Gibbs 12 Ilha Formosa, Seventeenth Century: Archaeology in Small Islands, History of Global Processes ...................................................... 281 María Cruz Berrocal About the Editors María Cruz Berrocal is a Research Fellow in the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz. She received a B.A. in History and Geography (1996) and a Ph.D in Pre- history and Archaeology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2004). She has worked at the High Council for Scientific Research (CSIC, Spain) the Univer- sity of California Berkeley, and at the National Taiwan Normal University and Aca- demia Sinica (Taiwan). Her research interests include Prehistoric Rock Art, Iberian Prehistory, Historical Archaeology, Theoretical Archaeology, and Pacific Archaeol- ogy. She has done research in the Pacific (mainly in Fiji and Taiwan) since 2007, and her recent publications include papers in Asian Perspectives and Archaeology in Oceania, among others. Sandra Montón-Subías is an ICREA research professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). She received a B.A. in geography and history from the Universitat de Barcelona (1988) and a Ph.D. in history from the Universitat Autòno- ma de Barcelona (1993). Since then, she has been working and conducting research stays at the University of Athens, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Re- search, the University of Cambridge, the University of California Santa Cruz, the Northwestern University, and the National Taiwan University. Sandra’s publica- tions include The Archaeology of Bronze Age Iberia: Argaric Societies (Routledge 2014) and ¿Qué es esa cosa llamada arqueología histórica? ( Complutum 2015). Apen Ruíz Martínez studied history at the University Autonoma de Barcelona and received her doctorate in Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. During her doctorate research she examined the relations among anthropology, gender, and nationalism in Mexico; she has published several articles on this top- ic. Apen teaches at various institutions, courses on culture, identity, and language in Hispanic societies; anthropology and qualitative research methodologies at the MSc. International Cooperation in Sustainable Emergency Architecture at the International University of Catalunya. She is currently a member of a European- funded project that focuses on the relations between heritage values and the public (http://heritagevalues.net/). ix Contributors Marcelin Abong Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta, Port-Vila, Vanuatu Agustín Azkarate UNESCO Chair on Cultural Landscape and Heritage. Grupo de Investigación en Patrimonio Construido, GPAC. Departamento de Geografía, Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Vitoria- Gasteiz, Araba, Spain James M. Bayman University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa, Honolulu, USA Stuart Bedford School of Culture, History and Languages, Australian National University/Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta, Canberra, Australia Verónica Benedet Grupo de Investigación en Patrimonio Construido, GPAC. Departamento de Geografía, Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Araba, Spain María Cruz Berrocal Zukunftskolleg, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany Sergio Escribano-Ruiz Grupo de Investigación en Patrimonio Construido, GPAC. Departamento de Geografía, Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Araba, Spain Victor M. Fernández Departamento de Prehistoria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain James Flexner School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Martin Gibbs Department of Archaeology, University of New England, Armidale, Australia María del Cristo González Marrero Grupo de Investigación Tarha, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain Alfredo González-Ruibal Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio (Incipit), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain xi xii Contributors Sandra Montón-Subías Departament d’Humanitats, ICREA/Universitat Pom- peu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Jorge Onrubia Pintado Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain John A. Peterson University of Guam, Mangilao, USA Llorenç Picornell Gelabert Grupo de Investigación ArqueoUIB, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma, Spain Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin, USA Apen Ruiz Universitat Oberta de Catalunya-Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain Manuel Sánchez-Elipe Departamento de Prehistoria, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain Iban Sánchez-Pinto Grupo de Investigación en Patrimonio Construido, GPAC. Departamento de Geografía, Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Araba, Spain Matthew Spriggs School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University/Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta, Canberra, Australia Kay Tarble de Scaramelli Departamento de Arqueología y Antropología Histórica, Escuela de Antropología, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela Monika Therrien Fundación Erigaie, Bogotá, Colombia
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