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DEMOGRAPHIC PATTERNS AT PRESIDIOS SANTA MARIA DE GALVE AND ISLA DE SANTA ROSA (1698-1752)
University of West Florida
Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida
2012
Abstract
Isolated outposts in the Spanish borderlands were occupied by settlers that were part of a larger Spanish colonial socio-political system that used both gender and ethnic heritage as indicators of social status. Data from the historic record and archaeologically recovered personal adornment artifacts, or items people wore, offer researchers a way to search for demographic patterns within the multiethnic populations that occupied Presidios Santa María de Galve and Isla de Santa Rosa. This research establishes a way to study detailed demographic composition during the Spanish Colonial Period in the two data sets by using specific associations of status, gender, and ethnicity. The analytical categories used to classify the diverse information are termed demographic groups. By classifying information into demographic groups, it is possible to organize and compare a complex data set. The combination of reclassified data from historic documents and adornment items from archaeological investigations produces a better understanding of community compositions and distributions at the presidios. The results provide an alternative means for studying Spanish colonial population dynamics.
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- Title
- DEMOGRAPHIC PATTERNS AT PRESIDIOS SANTA MARIA DE GALVE AND ISLA DE SANTA ROSA (1698-1752)
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Publisher
- University of West Florida
- Format
- text
- Copyright
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
- Identifiers
- 99380090729606600
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Master of Arts (MA)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida