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Puerto Real

Name: Puerto Real
Author: Kathleen Deagan
ISBN: 9780813081854

The Archaeology of a Sixteenth-Century Spanish Town in Hispaniola

Edited by Kathleen Deagan

Published by: University Press of Florida

Series: Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

This volume presents essays on Puerto Real, Haiti, the site of the largest and most intensive archaeological excavation of any Spanish colony in the Caribbean.

559 Pages6.00 × 9.00165 figures, 62 tables, glossary, references, index

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Essays on the history and excavation of a key site for understanding early Spanish colonization in the Caribbean

Puerto Real, Haiti, is the site of the largest and most intensive archaeological excavation of any Spanish colony in the Caribbean. It is a primary data source for understanding all Spanish colonial ventures in the region and a vital archival source for anyone concerned with the early history of European colonization in the New World.

The essays in this volume are written by the international specialists who carried out the fieldwork at Puerto Real. They include a firsthand account by William H. Hodges, who discovered the site and brought it to the attention of archaeologists in Haiti and the United States, and discussion of the multiracial interactions of the Spaniards, Indigenous people, and Africans who lived there.

Kathleen Deagan is Distinguished Research Curator of Archaeology Emerita and the Emerita Lockwood Professor of Florida and Caribbean Archaeology at the University of Florida. Her many books include En Bas Saline: A Taíno Town before and after Columbus.

“A superb presentation of a critically important archaeological site. It's a seamless synthesis of Hispanic historical sources that effectively ties the events played out at Puerto Real to the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century global geopolitical scene.”—David Hurst Thomas, senior curator in residence, North American Archaeology, American Museum of Natural History

“Deagan provides as concrete a glimpse into colonial life as it is possible to achieve. . . . An important volume.”—Hispanic American Historical Review
“[Puerto Real] is engrossing and invaluable for scientists and historians, and it is a must for all scholars of the Spanish New World.”—American Antiquity
“An extremely readable book. . . . Well organized and very well edited.”—Southeastern Archaeology

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Kathleen Deagan

Part I. The Contexts and Background of Puerto Real

1. How We Found Puerto Real
William H. Hodges

2. Historical Archaeology at Puerto Real
Kathleen Deagan

3. The Natural and Cultural Settings of Puerto Real
William H. Hodges, Kathleen Deagan, and Elizabeth J. Reitz

4. A General History of Puerto Real
William H. Hodges and Eugene Lyon

Part 2. Community Organization and the Public Sector

5. Spatial Patterning and Community Organization at Puerto Real
Maurice Williams

6. Empire and Architecture at Puerto Real: The Archaeology of Public Space
Raymond F. Willis

7. Archaeology in Puerto Real’s Public Sector: Building B
Rochelle A. Marrinan

Part 3. The Spanish Households of Puerto Real

8. Spanish Precedents and Domestic Life at Puerto Real: The Archaeology of Spanish Homesites
Bonnie G. McEwan

9. Merchants and Cattlemen: The Archaeology of a Commercial Structure at Puerto Real
Kathleen Deagan and Elizabeth J. Reitz

Part 4. Syntheses

10. Animals, Environment, and the Spanish Diet at Puerto Real
Elizabeth J. Reitz and Bonnie G. McEwan

11. Indians and Africans at Puerto Real: The Ceramic Evidence
Greg C. Smith

Part 5. Epilogue

12. The Aftermath of Puerto Real: Archaeology at Bayahá
Jennifer M. Hamilton and William H. Hodges

13. After Columbus: The Sixteenth-Century Spanish-Caribbean Frontier
Kathleen Deagan

Appendix 1: Chronology of Contacts and Other Events Affecting Puerto Real and Its Vicinity, 1513–1609
Eugene Lyon

Appendix 2: The Religious Culture of Hispaniola and Descriptions of the Churches of Hispaniola
Eugene Lyon

Appendix 3: Subsurface Artifact Distributions from the 1980 Central Sector Test Program
Raymond F. Willis

Glossary

References

Contributors

Index

Books

Authors

Journals

On The Site

Books

Authors

Journals

On The Site

Puerto Real

The Archaeology of a Sixteenth-Century Spanish Town in Hispaniola

Puerto Real

The Archaeology of a Sixteenth-Century Spanish Town in Hispaniola

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