Fort San Juan and the limits of empire : colonialism and household practice at the Berry Site /

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. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2016. - 1 online resource - Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Joara, Cuenca, and Fort San Juan -- Introduction / Who they were: situating the colonial encounter -- Joara in time and space / Recollections of the Juan Pardo Expeditions: the 1584 Domingo de Lecentn account / Where they lived: household archaeology at Fort San Juan -- The built environment of the Berry Site Spanish compound / Wood selection and technology in structures 1 and 5 / What they ate: politics, food, and provisioning -- People, plants, and early frontier food / Fauna, subsistence, and survival at Fort San Juan / What they carried: material culture and household practice -- Spanish material culture from the Berry Site / Native material culture from the Spanish compound / What they left behind: fragments of the colonial encounter. Robin A. Beck, David G. Moore, and Christopher B. Rodning -- Robin A. Beck, David G. Moore, and Christopher B. Rodning -- John E. Worth -- Robin A. Beck, David G. Moore, Christopher B. Rodning, Sarah Sherwood, and Elizabeth T. Horton -- Lee Ann Newsom -- Gayle J. Fritz -- Heather A. Lapham -- Christopher B. Rodning, Robin A. Beck, David G. Moore, and James Legg -- David G. Moore, Christopher B. Rodning, and Robin A. Beck --

This 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.



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Excavations (Archaeology)--North Carolina--Burke County.
Spaniards--Antiquities.--North Carolina--Burke County
Indians of North America--Antiquities.--North Carolina--Burke County
Fortification--History--North Carolina--Burke County--16th century.
Excavations (Archaeology)--North Carolina--Morganton Region.


Electronic Books.

F262 / .F678 2016