Daily life at the Spanish colony of Floridablanca (Patagonia, 18th century)

M. X. SENATORE, M. BIANCHI VILLELLI, S. BUSCAGLIA, M. MARSCHOFF, V. NUVIALA, C. BOSONI AND L. STARÓPOLI.

Toronto, Canada

Conferencia; SHA 2009 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaology; 2009

Society for Historical Archaeology

<!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES; mso-fareast-language:ES;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> The “New Colony and Fort of Floridablanca” was part of a plan of the Spanish Crown to defend and settle the Patagonian Coast (Santa Cruz, Argentina). From 1780 to 1784, this agricultural colony was inhabited by approximately 150 people with different origins and ocupations. Since 1998 the project “Archaeology and History in the Spanish Colony of Floridablanca (Patagonia, 18th century)”, seeks to understand how was society structured in this specific colonial context in Patagonia. Here we present some results of the main reserach topics developed -culture contact, social change, sociability, identity and power relationships- that show the multiple ways in which material culture was embedded in the daily life of the colony’s inhabitants.