Archaeology at La Isabela: America's First European Town
Kathleen Deagan and Jose Maria Cruxent
Abstract
This book presents detailed technical documentation of the authors' ten-year archaeological excavation of La Isabela, America's first colony. The artifacts and material remains of the town offer rich material for comparative research into Euro-American cultural and material development during the crucial transition from the medieval era to the Renaissance. The period when La Isabela was in existence witnessed great innovation and change in many areas of technology. The archaeological evidence of La Isabela's architecture, weaponry, numismatics, pottery, and metallurgy can be precisely dated, h ... More
This book presents detailed technical documentation of the authors' ten-year archaeological excavation of La Isabela, America's first colony. The artifacts and material remains of the town offer rich material for comparative research into Euro-American cultural and material development during the crucial transition from the medieval era to the Renaissance. The period when La Isabela was in existence witnessed great innovation and change in many areas of technology. The archaeological evidence of La Isabela's architecture, weaponry, numismatics, pottery, and metallurgy can be precisely dated, helping to chart the sequence of this change and revealing much that is new about late medieval technology. The authors' archaeological research also provides a foundation for their insights into the reasons for the demise of La Isabela.
Keywords:
La Isabela,
medieval era,
Renaissance,
architecture,
weaponry,
numismatics,
pottery,
metallurgy,
archaeological evidence,
material development
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2002 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780300090413 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 |
DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300090413.001.0001 |
