Ceramic Production in Early Hispanic California : Craft, Economy, and Trade on the Frontier of New Spain

Russell K Skowronek

ISBN 10: 0813049814 / ISBN 13: 9780813049816

Published by University Press Of Florida Sep 2014, 2014

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Neuware - In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, much of what is now the south-western United States was known as Alta California, a remote part of New Spain. The presidios, missions, and pueblos of the region have yielded a rich trove of ceramics materials, though they have been sparsely analysed in the literature. Ceramic Produc tion in Early Hispanic California fills that lacuna and reinterprets the position of Alta California in the Spanish Colonial Empire.Using both petrography and neutron activation analysis to exam ine over 1,600 ceramic samples, the contributors to this volume ex plore the region s ceramic production, imports, trade, and consump tion. From artistic innovation to technological diffusion, a different aspect of the intricacies of everyday life and culture in the region is revealed in each essay. This book illuminates much about Spanish imperial expansion in a far corner of the colonial world. Through this research, California history has been rewritten.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ceramic Production in Early Hispanic California : Craft, Economy, and Trade on the Frontier of New Spain
• Publisher: University Press Of Florida Sep 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813049814
• ISBN 13: 9780813049816
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 155H x 36D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 36 millimeters depth
• Weight: 794 grams

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Synopsis

“One of the most authoritative and comprehensive analyses written to date on lifestyle, technology, identity, and economic interaction in a Spanish colony.”—Wesley D. Stoner, Archaeometry Laboratory at the University of Missouri Research Reactor
 
“A benchmark publication. Extensively investigating mission- and presidio-associated ceramics, this book unearths the history of California as a remote area of New Spain that became integrated into a larger world system.”—Patricia Fournier, National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico
 
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, much of what is now the western United States was known as Alta California, a distant corner of New Spain. The presidios, missions, and pueblos of the region have yielded a rich trove of ceramics materials, though they have been sparsely analyzed in the literature. Ceramic Production in Early Hispanic California examines those materials to reinterpret the economic position of Alta California in the Spanish Colonial Empire.

Using neutron activation analysis, petrography, and other analytic procedures, thousands of ceramic samples were examined. The contributors to this volume explore the region’s ceramic production, imports, trade, and consumption. From artistic innovation to technological diffusion, a different aspect of the intricacies of everyday life and culture in the region is revealed in each essay. This book illuminates much about Spanish imperial expansion in a far corner of the colonial world. Through this research, California history has been rewritten.

About the Author

Russell K. Skowronek is professor of anthropology and history at the University of Texas-Pan American. He is the coauthor of HMS Fowey Lost and Found and the coeditor of X Marks the Spot and Beneath the Ivory Tower. M. James Blackman is senior research chemist emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution in the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History. Ronald L. Bishop is curator for Mexican and Central American archaeology and senior research archaeologist at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.