A Historical Archaeology of Early Spanish Colonial Urbanism in Central America

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xv

Part I. Modern-World Historical Archaeology and Early

Spanish Colonial Urbanism

1. Ciudad Vieja in the Context of Modern-World Historical

Archaeology 3

2. Ciudad Vieja and Early Spanish Colonial Urbanism 32

Part II. The Archaeology of Ciudad Vieja, El Salvador

3. Environmental Structures, Resources, and Economy of the Villa of San

Salvador 61

4. The Ciudad Vieja Archaeological Project: Mapping, Site Survey, and

Geophysical Remote Sensing 74

5. The Urban Landscape of Ciudad Vieja: Excavations and

Architecture 84

Part III. A Structural History of Early Spanish

Colonial Urbanism

6. The Longue Duree of Historical Urbanism in Spain 133

7. Structural History of Early Colonial Urbanism in Central America 149

8. Conclusions: The Urban Colonization of Spanish America 208

Notes 231

References Cited 245

Index 323