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Domestic Architecture in Apalachee Province: Apalachee and Spanish Residential Styles in the Late Prehistoric and Early Historic Period Southeast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

John F. Scarry  and
Bonnie G. McEwan
John F. Scarry
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology and Research Laboratories of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599–3120
Bonnie G. McEwan
Affiliation:
San Luis Archaeological and Historic Site, Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research, R. A. Gray Building, Tallahassee, FL 32399–0250
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Abstract

The traditional architectural styles of the Apalachee of northern Florida and Spanish colonists in the New World represent distinct approaches to the organization of domestic and community space and reflect different attitudes toward public and private activities. To the degree that the Apalachee became Hispanicized or that the Spaniards in Apalachee adopted aspects of aboriginal lifestyles during the seventeenth-century mission period, we might expect to see changes in architecture and community organization. Archaeological and ethnohistorical data from Apalachee Province indicate that the shapes and spatial arrangement of native and European domestic structures changed very little as a result of contact. This suggests that each group maintained a distinct identity in the realm of residential organization, despite the profound changes that both the Apalachee and Spaniards made in other aspects of their lives as a result of European colonization in La Florida.

Resumen

Resumen

Los estilos de arquitectura tradicionales en los Apalachees del norte de Florida y los colonizadores Españoles en el Nuevo Mundo representan distintos modos en la organización doméstica, así como en la comunidad, reflejando diferentes actitudes hacia el pueblo y las actividades privadas. A tal punto, que los Apalaches se hispanizaron, y los Españoles en Apalachee adoptaron el modo de vida de los indígenas durante la época misional del sigh diéz y siete. Como es de esperarse, estos cambios se produjeron en la arquitectura y en la organización de la comunidad. Los datos arqueológicos y etnohistóricos sobre la Provincia de Apalachee indican, que las estructuras y el orden en que fueron construídas cambio muy poco como resultado de este contacto. Esto sugiere que cada grupo mantubo su identidad dentro de la organización residencial del reino, no obstante los cambios tan profundos que ambos los Apalachees y los Españoles hizieron en otros aspectos de sus vidas, y como resultado de la colonizacion europea en La Florida.

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American Antiquity , Volume 60 , Issue 3 , July 1995 , pp. 482 - 495
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1995

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