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This is an archaeological and historical study of Mexico City and Xaltocan, focusing on the early years after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire in 1521. The study of households excavated in Mexico City and the probate inventories of 39 colonizers provide a vivid view of the material and social lives of the Spanish in what was once the capital of the Aztec empire. Decades of archaeological and ethnohistorical research in Xaltocan, a town north of Mexico City, offers a long-term perspective of daily life, technology, the economy, and the adoption of Spanish material culture among indigenous people. Through these case studies, this book examines interpretive strategies used when working with historical documents and archaeological data. Focusing on the use of metaphors to guide interpretation, this volume explores the possibilities for interdisciplinary collaboration between historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists working on this pivotal period in Latin American history.

Household archaeology --- Mexico --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Social archaeology --- Mexico City (Mexico) --- Spain --- History --- Civilization --- Spanish influences. --- Antiquities.

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"As we enter the material worlds of Spanish colonizers, we should get to know a little bit about the colonizers themselves. In this chapter, I characterize the economic standing of colonizers, focusing on their wealth and the kinds of things on which they spent or invested their money. To address issues of wealth, it will be necessary to study the kinds of coin and other media of exchange that were in use in sixteenth-century Mexico City. The people compiling the probate inventories that form the basis of this study measured and recorded the value of each item in material terms: the amount of gold that would be necessary to purchase a person's belongings. They translated each decedent's net worth into coin in official documents, with the intent of communicating and sending the value of the decedent's belongings to his or her family in Spain. Calculating the value of a decedent's belongings as gold also helped the church and the Spanish crown collect some revenue from a person's estate, through donations to the church and taxes to the king"--

Wealth --- Taxation --- Material culture --- History --- History --- History --- Mexico --- Colonization --- History.

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Cooking --- Cooks --- Food habits --- Social archaeology --- Ethnoarchaeology --- Archaeology and history --- Cuisine --- Cuisiniers --- Habitudes alimentaires --- Archéologie sociale --- Ethnoarchéologie --- Archéologie et histoire --- History --- Congresses. --- Social aspects --- Congresses --- Histoire --- Congrès --- Aspect social --- Archaeology and history. --- Ethnoarchaeology. --- Social archaeology. --- Cookware --- History. --- Cookery --- Food preparation --- Food science --- Home economics --- Cookbooks --- Dinners and dining --- Food --- Gastronomy --- Table --- Chefs --- Food service employees --- Kitchen utensils --- Archaeology --- Ethnic archaeology --- Ethnicity in archaeology --- Ethnology in archaeology --- Ethnology --- Historical archaeology --- History and archaeology --- Methodology