9781683403555

168340355X

9781683403593

"This book details the Indigenous Taino occupation at En Bas Saline in Hispaniola between AD 1250 and 1520, showing how the community coped with the dramatic changes imposed by Spanish contact"-- Provided by publisher.

"Life in an Indigenous town during an understudied era of Haitian history This book details the Indigenous Taino occupation at En Bas Saline in Hispaniola between AD 1250 and 1520, showing how the community coped with the dramatic changes imposed by Spanish contact. En Bas Saline is the largest late precontact Tainotown recorded in what is now Haiti; the only one that has been extensively excavated and analyzed; and one of few with archaeologically documented occupation both before and after the arrival of Columbus in 1492. It is thought to be the site of La Navidad, Columbus's first settlement, where the cacique Guacanagari offered refuge and shelter after the sinking of the Santa Maria. Kathleen Deagan provides an intrasite and spatial analysis of En Bas Saline by focusing on households, foodways, ceramics, and crafts and offers insights into social organization and chiefly power in this political center through domestic and ornamental material culture. Postcontact changes are seen in patterns of gendered behavior, as well as in the power base of the caciques, challenging the traditional assumption that Tainosociety was devastatingly disrupted almost immediately after contact. En Bas Saline is the only archaeological account of the consequences of contact from the perspective of the Tainopeoples' lived experience. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series"-- Provided by publisher.

Ripley P. Bullen series

Introduction: Archaeology and En Bas Saline

The Taino people of Hispaniola before Caciques and Commoners

Polities and Places

The Social Landscape

Defining En Bas Saline

Excavation and Data Ordering

Houses and Households

Community Space and Ritual

Foodways

Food-related material technology

Artisanal and Craft Production

Columbus, Guacanagari and La Navidad

After Columbus: Postcontact Occupation at En Bas Saline

En Bas Saline in Retrospect

Taino Indians > History.

Taino Indians > Social life and customs.

Taino Indians > Antiquities.

Taino Indians > First contact with other peoples.

Taino Indians > Antiquities.

Taino Indians > First contact with other peoples.

Taino Indians > Social life and customs.

Haiti > History > To 1791.

Hispaniola > Antiquities.