Corinne L. Hofman, PhD (1993), Leiden University, is Professor of Caribbean Archaeology. She has published articles, book chapters, and edited volumes on the indigenous Caribbean, including The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology and The Caribbean before Columbus (Oxford University Press, 2013 and 2017).Floris W.M. Keehnen, MA (2012), Leiden University, is a PhD student. In 2013, he obtained a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to investigate indigenous Caribbean attitudes towards European-introduced material culture in early colonial times (AD 1492-1550).

• Preface: What’s in a Name?Charles R. CobbAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1 Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial AmericasFloris W.M. Keehnen, Corinne L. Hofman and Andrzej T. Antczak2 Colonial Encounters in Lucayan ContextsMary Jane Berman and Perry L. Gnivecki3 Treating ‘Trifles’: the Indigenous Adoption of European Material Goods in Early Colonial Hispaniola (1492–1550)Floris W.M. Keehnen4 Contact and Colonial Impact in Jamaica: Comparative Material Culture and Diet at Sevilla la Nueva and the Taíno Village of MaimaShea Henry and Robyn Woodward5 European Material Culture in Indigenous Sites in Northeastern CubaRoberto Valcárcel Rojas6 Breaking and Making Identities: Transformations of Ceramic Repertoires in Early Colonial HispaniolaMarlieke Ernst and Corinne L. Hofman7 Rancherías: Historical Archaeology of Early Colonial Campsites on Margarita and Coche Islands, VenezuelaAndrzej T. Antczak, Ma. Magdalena Antczak and Oliver Antczak8 Santa María de la Antigua del Darién: the Aftermath of Colonial SettlementAlberto Sarcina9 Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in Early Colonial El SalvadorWilliam R. Fowler and Jeb J. Card10 Hybrid Cultures: the Visibility of the European Invasion of Caribbean Honduras in the Sixteenth CenturyRussell N. Sheptak and Rosemary A. Joyce11 Exotics for the Lords and Gods: Lowland Maya Consumption of European Goods along a Spanish Colonial FrontierJaime J. Awe and Christophe Helmke12 Resignification as Fourth Narrative: Power and the Colonial Religious Experience in Tula, HidalgoShannon Dugan Iverson13 Indigenous Pottery Technology of Central Mexico during Early Colonial TimesGilda Hernández Sánchez14 War and Peace in the Sixteenth-Century Southwest: Objected-oriented Approaches to Native-European Encounters and TrajectoriesClay Mathers15 ‘Beyond the Falls’: Amerindian Stance towards New Encounters along the Wild Coast (AD 1595–1627)Martijn M. Bel van den and Gérard Collomb16 Colonial Encounters in the Southern Lesser Antilles: Indigenous Resistance, Material Transformations, and Diversity in an Ever-Globalizing WorldCorinne L. Hofman, Menno L.P. Hoogland, Arie Boomert and John Angus MartinEpilogue: Situating Colonial Interaction and Materials: Scale, Context, TheoryMaxine OlandIndex

Corinne L. Hofman, PhD (1993), Leiden University, is Professor of Caribbean Archaeology. She has published articles, book chapters, and edited volumes on the indigenous Caribbean, including The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology and The Caribbean before Columbus (Oxford University Press, 2013 and 2017).Floris W.M. Keehnen, MA (2012), Leiden University, is a PhD student. In 2013, he obtained a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to investigate indigenous Caribbean attitudes towards European-introduced material culture in early colonial times (AD 1492-1550).

• Preface: What’s in a Name?Charles R. CobbAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1 Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial AmericasFloris W.M. Keehnen, Corinne L. Hofman and Andrzej T. Antczak2 Colonial Encounters in Lucayan ContextsMary Jane Berman and Perry L. Gnivecki3 Treating ‘Trifles’: the Indigenous Adoption of European Material Goods in Early Colonial Hispaniola (1492–1550)Floris W.M. Keehnen4 Contact and Colonial Impact in Jamaica: Comparative Material Culture and Diet at Sevilla la Nueva and the Taíno Village of MaimaShea Henry and Robyn Woodward5 European Material Culture in Indigenous Sites in Northeastern CubaRoberto Valcárcel Rojas6 Breaking and Making Identities: Transformations of Ceramic Repertoires in Early Colonial HispaniolaMarlieke Ernst and Corinne L. Hofman7 Rancherías: Historical Archaeology of Early Colonial Campsites on Margarita and Coche Islands, VenezuelaAndrzej T. Antczak, Ma. Magdalena Antczak and Oliver Antczak8 Santa María de la Antigua del Darién: the Aftermath of Colonial SettlementAlberto Sarcina9 Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in Early Colonial El SalvadorWilliam R. Fowler and Jeb J. Card10 Hybrid Cultures: the Visibility of the European Invasion of Caribbean Honduras in the Sixteenth CenturyRussell N. Sheptak and Rosemary A. Joyce11 Exotics for the Lords and Gods: Lowland Maya Consumption of European Goods along a Spanish Colonial FrontierJaime J. Awe and Christophe Helmke12 Resignification as Fourth Narrative: Power and the Colonial Religious Experience in Tula, HidalgoShannon Dugan Iverson13 Indigenous Pottery Technology of Central Mexico during Early Colonial TimesGilda Hernández Sánchez14 War and Peace in the Sixteenth-Century Southwest: Objected-oriented Approaches to Native-European Encounters and TrajectoriesClay Mathers15 ‘Beyond the Falls’: Amerindian Stance towards New Encounters along the Wild Coast (AD 1595–1627)Martijn M. Bel van den and Gérard Collomb16 Colonial Encounters in the Southern Lesser Antilles: Indigenous Resistance, Material Transformations, and Diversity in an Ever-Globalizing WorldCorinne L. Hofman, Menno L.P. Hoogland, Arie Boomert and John Angus MartinEpilogue: Situating Colonial Interaction and Materials: Scale, Context, TheoryMaxine OlandIndex