Author Deagan, Kathleen A.

Title Archaeology at La Isabela : America's first European town / Kathleen Deagan and José María Cruxent.

Pub Info New Haven : Yale University Press, [2002] ©2002

Table of Contents
	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Columbus and La Isabela					1
Ch. 2	The Tainos at La Isabela					15
Ch. 3	The Geographical and Cultural Landscape of Columbus's Colony					47
Ch. 4	Excavations at El Castillo					59
Ch. 5	The Medieval Enclave: Organization of Space at La Isabela					85
Ch. 6	La Isabela's Buildings					97
Ch. 7	Starvation in Paradise: Food and Subsistence at La Isabela					139
Ch. 8	Living in Bohios: Domestic Life at La Isabela					187
Ch. 9	Soldiers and Horsemen at La Isabela					225
Ch. 10	Artisans and Craftsmen at La Isabela					247
Ch. 11	Aftermath and Transformation					273
App. 1	Supplies and Items Brought to La Isabela					301
App. 2	Horizontal Distribution of Artifact Categories					305
App. 3	Items Excavated at La Isabela					311
App. 4	Potentially Undisturbed Domestic Proveniences Used for Macrofaunal Analyses					335
App. 5	Compositional Analyses of Ceramics from La Isabela / Emlen Myers					337
App. 6	Preliminary Comments on the Glass Bracelets from La Isabela / Robert Brill					341
App. 7	Artifact Distributions at Three Spanish Town Sites in Hispaniola					345
	References					355
	Index					371