Michael Bletzer

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In-situ conservation of wooden artifact in a desert environment?

Hello, recent exposure of an early 17th-century burial in south-central New Mexico has uncovered a wooden cross (length c. 30cm) in direct association with that burial. Due to the local arid...

15 March 2020 9,363 7 View

Manufacture of armor in 16th-century New Spain?

I’m looking for references to the production especially of mail armor (armadura de malla) in colonial New Spain. In Europe, makers of mail armor (malleros in Spain) were highly specialized and...

13 February 2017 2,905 7 View

Sources on camino real Sanlúcar de Barrameda/Cádiz/Sevilla to Toledo/Madrid?

Hello, I’m looking for sources on/studies of the 16th-/17th-century camino real from Sanlúcar de Barrameda/Cádiz/Sevilla to Toledo/Madrid. I’m interested in everything from commercial traffic to...

12 May 2016 9,332 4 View

Does anyone know of seventeenth-century accounts of Spanish returnees from New Spain?

I'm interested in accounts (long or short, doesn't matter) of Spanish settlers who returned from Spain's American colonies, and especially New Spain, to the Iberian peninsula in the period...

29 February 2016 7,173 9 View

Where can I find images of the rock art/pintura rupestre of Cueva de los Monos, Durango, Mexico?

Can someone point me to images showing, supposedly, Tepehuanes and Spanish jinetes in a battle scene painted on the walls of the Cueva de los Monos, located in the state of Durango, Mexico? Much...

15 January 2016 2,620 5 View

Post-abandonment groundstone-robbing and re-use in rebuilt/remodeled Pueblo IV/V roomblocks? Are there any quantitative studies on this subject?

I'm working on the supposed mission mound of an early colonial pueblo (Tzelaqui, aka Sevilleta) in south-central New Mexico. The wall foundations were built in a curious mix of adobe, rocks, and...

01 December 2015 9,782 9 View

Does anyone know about rock art of horses in Chichimeca territory, 16th/17th century ?

Hello, is there anyone on here who knows of rock art images of horsemen in the old Chichimeca territory of the 1500s and 1600s? According to Spanish sources, Chichimeca groups like the...

28 August 2015 1,195 10 View

Hello, is anyone on here engaged in, or aware of, archaeological research on reducción- or congregación-type mission settlements in Latin America?

My primary interest is in the material record of 16th/17th-century settlements that were abandoned under reducción/congregación policies, especially in Nueva España (Mexico). I'm working on what...

18 March 2015 8,258 7 View

Can anyone help me with sixteenth-century occurrences of the name "Querechos"?

I'm interested in the name "Querechos" and any occurrences in 16th-century documents from New Spain (i.e. Mexico). The name was used by members of the Coronado expedition to describe some Plains...

14 July 2013 8,849 10 View