ABSTRACT

At the turn of the eighteenth century, two military presidios – West Florida and San Agustín – anchored the shrinking and besieged colony of Spanish Florida. Unlike San Agustín that stayed in one place, the West Florida presidio was relocated three times, creating four geographically separate and chronologically sequential sites of the same community and enabling fine-grained temporal analyses. Here, I analyze ceramic trends that reveal three Mexican majolica types, Olive Jar, and the tempering agents of Native American ceramics that are temporally sensitive. However, these ceramic trends are a cautionary tale as they may be specific only to the West Florida Hispanic and Native American settlements in this region. When comparing the ceramics from West Florida and San Agustín, the main difference is a much higher proportion of Native American ceramics in San Agustín, which I attribute to the presence of many Indian and local mestizo women in their households. This demographic was not as substantial in West Florida. The differences in the two eighteenth-century Spanish Florida presidios reflects flexibility at the local level in implementing a highly regulated Spanish imperial system that enabled their colonial empire to include innumerable indigenous cultures in a variety of historic circumstances.

摘要

在 18 世纪之交，西佛罗里达和圣阿古斯丁这两个军事总督府驻扎在西班牙佛罗里达日益萎缩和被围困的殖民地。与留在一个地方的圣阿古斯丁不同，西佛罗里达州的总统府被重新安置了 3 次，为同一社区创建了四个地理上独立且按时间顺序排列的地点，并能够进行细粒度的时间分析。在这里，我分析了陶瓷趋势，揭示了三种墨西哥陶器类型，橄榄罐，以及对时间敏感的美洲原住民陶瓷的回火剂。然而，这些陶瓷趋势是一个警示故事，因为它们可能只针对该地区的西佛罗里达西班牙裔和美洲原住民定居点。在比较西佛罗里达和圣阿古斯丁的陶瓷时，家庭中的混血妇女。在西佛罗里达州，这一人口统计数据并不多。两个 18 世纪西班牙佛罗里达州总统府的差异反映了地方一级在实施高度规范的西班牙帝国制度方面的灵活性，使他们的殖民帝国能够在各种历史环境中纳入无数土著文化。