Gender and race are central to archaeological investigations of empire. In research on the
Spanish colonization of the Americas, one prominent theory, the St. Augustine pattern …

Spanish colonial archaeology has undergone a fundamental shift since the Columbian
Quincentenary due to the adoption of a bottom-up understanding of colonialism that …

This essay outlines recent archaeological research on post-Columbian (c. AD 1500–1925)
indigenous sites in Mexico and Central America. Historical archaeology is a growing field in …

Archaeologists have long used ceramics, especially majolica, as a key indicator of status in
the Spanish colonial Americas. In actuality, archaeological evidence for the relationship …

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 …

During the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, the Spanish navigators established and
operated the Manila Galleon maritime route which connected East Asia and New Spain in …

Power relations intrinsic to the institution of debt peonage clearly influenced material
conditions on the haciendas of Yucatán prior to the Mexican Revolution. Recent …

Political ecology, with its focus on twenty-first century power relations and resource access,
also provides a perspective on commodity production in the sixteenth-and seventeenth …

This study presents the results of visual and portable X-ray fluorescence (PXRF) analyses of
botijas/olive jars from the 16th Century sites of San Miguel de Piura and Carrizales, north …

Preparing a synopsis of the history and historical archaeology of New Spain's northwest
frontier, not to mention its Pacific holdings, is not simply daunting, it is a Herculean task. At …