Research Interests

My interests are in the historical archaeology of Mesoamerica, and the archaeology of military conquest, political upheaval, culture contact, and ethnogenesis. My research has focused on the ceramic assemblage from Ciudad Vieja, the second attempt at a Spanish-controlled settlement and the oldest European colonial site in what is today El Salvador. Analysis of locally produced serving plates with Pipil Nahua color and design aesthetics but Hispano-Italian morphology has, together with patterns in ceramic production attributes, allowed me to examine the effects of forced migration and resettlement on the first generations of a multi-ethnic population of Mesoamericans being reclassified in a Spanish colonial system. This has led me to a wider interest in the mechanics and archaeological potential of material culture hybridization, and to an interest in ethnogenesis in colonial contexts. I have also excavated pre-European sites Maya sites in El Salvador and Mexico, and I believe there is an important role for applying some of the findings and methods of historical archaeology to precolumbian Mesoamerica.

Courses

ANTH 513. Hybrid Material Culture and the Origins of Style
Fall 2008, Wednesdays 9:00-11:50 A.M

Curriculum Vitae

Available upon request

Selected publications

Card, Jeb J. & William R. Fowler. In prep. Copywares and Mean Ceramic Dating: Revising the Early History of San Salvador, El Salvador

Card, Jeb J. 2006. Excavaciones y arquitectura de la Estructura 6F4. In W. R. Fowler, Jr. (Ed.) Arqueología histórica de la villa de San Salvador, El Salvador: Informe de las excavaciones (1996-2003) (pp. 84-92). Columbia, S.C.: The South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina.

Card, Jeb J. 2002. Excavaciones y arquitectura de la Estructura 6F4. In W. R. Fowler & R. Gallardo (Eds.) Investigaciones arqueológicas en Ciudad Vieja, El Salvador: La primigenia villa de San Salvador San Salvador, El Salvador, CONCULTURA & Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional.