Rancherías Historical Archaeology of Early Colonial Campsites on Margarita and Coche Islands, Venezuela

The frantic nature of the contact period followed by the unrelenting forging of quotidian colonial realities brought dramatic changes to indigenous peoples across the Americas. Each of these phases assumed specific social expressions and pulsated with diverse regional tempos. Undeniably, some thread...

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Published inMaterial Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas p. 146
Main Authors Andrzej T. Antczak, Ma. Magdalena Antczak, Oliver Antczak, Luis A. Lemoine Buffet
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States BRILL 10.04.2019
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Summary:The frantic nature of the contact period followed by the unrelenting forging of quotidian colonial realities brought dramatic changes to indigenous peoples across the Americas. Each of these phases assumed specific social expressions and pulsated with diverse regional tempos. Undeniably, some threads that interconnected indigenous populations of the late precolonial times were irreversibly severed during the contact period. Other links survived and underwent various processes of transformation. Along the Venezuelan coast and the parallel chain of Southeastern Caribbean islands, the arrival of the Europeans had categorical consequences. It cut off or thoroughly transformed traditional circuits of exchange and spheres of
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