Puerto Real: The Archaeology of a Sixteenth-Century Spanish Town in Hispaniola
Gainesville, Florida: Univ of Florida Press, 1995. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.
Ex-Library with usual markings; The bindings are tight and square. Text is clean; light, even age-toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. 9.5 inches tall; 533 pages with an index; fully illustrated with drawings and photos.
Puerto Real was a frontier Spanish settlement on Hispaniola, active from roughly 1503/04 until 1579. The archaeological work at the site is considered among the principal colonial excavations in the Caribbean, crucial for understanding early Spanish colonization and its material culture.
Deagan’s edited volume synthesizes interdisciplinary data (archaeological, zoological, architectural, historical) to reconstruct daily life, settlement structure, and colonial adaptation in the early colonial era.
Kathleen A. Deagan is a prominent American historical archaeologist, known for key contributions in Florida and the Caribbean, and this work stands among her major contributions.
Subjects: Kathleen A. Deagan; Spanish colonial archaeology; Hispaniola; Puerto Real; colonial town settlement; Caribbean historical archaeology; Academic / Archaeology; Latin American / Caribbean colonial history.
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Price: $24.00
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