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This chapter describes the methodological structuring of the Historical Archaeology Program of Bogota (Colombia), starting from the initial archaeological projects in which we sought to understand the impact of contact between natives and Europeans after the conquest, to determining the characteristics of this process in the early period of the city of Santafe de Bogota. The focus is on methodological experimentation, particularly the experimentation for more than a decade with the analysis of material culture produced locally, from very different archaeological contexts, to build criteria and indicators of change. More recently, this experimentation has turned to the application of grounded theory analysis of archival documents, specifically those that describe the daily routines of the residents of the city, from which the codes and analytical categories for the practices shared by the majority, not only from the elites, emerge. The crossing of archaeological, historical, and geographical data resulting from this transdisciplinary methodological structure has led to identify contact spaces of activities and events that took place in specific contexts and locations, and the material culture which mediated in them. In turn, the intersection of analytical indicators and spaces of contact are the basis for generating interpretations of different ways in which people with diverse backgrounds understood and gave meaning to the world and the new social order imposed in the early colonial period. |
