The monthly meeting of the St. Augustine Archaeological Association will present a talk by Dr Karen Anderson-Córdova titled Indigenous Resistance and Cultural Transformation in the Spanish Caribbean.

In this talk, Karen Anderson-Córdova will be presenting highlights of her recently published book Surviving Spanish Conquest, Indian Fight, Flight, and Cultural Transformation in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. She weaves archaeological, historical and ethnohistorical sources into a narrative of what happened to the indigenous populations of the Spanish Caribbean and explores the ethnic complexity of native peoples who coalesced on these islands, and how they resisted Spanish colonization.

Dr. Anderson-Córdova is retired from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Historic Preservation Division, where she managed preservation planning and compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and state stewardship of historic properties. She also taught anthropology and archaeology at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus, at Georgia State University, Atlanta, and was State Archaeologist and Deputy SHPO in the Puerto Rico State Historic Preservation Office. She has published on the early Spanish-Indian contact period and aboriginal demography in the Antilles, and worked extensively in cultural resource management in Puerto Rico and Georgia.

For those who are interested, copies of the book will be available for purchase at a discounted price.

The event is free and opened to the public. The presentation will begin at 7:00 PM in the Flagler Room on the Flagler College Campus, 74 King Street, St. Augustine, Florida 32084.

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