Native Americans and animal husbandry in the North American colony of Spanish Florida

It is sometimes assumed that Native American subsistence strategies in North America rapidly incorporated European domestic animals and changed to accommodate European foodways. However, archaeozoological evidence for vertebrate use by Native Americans at North American proto-historic and historic sites indicates that domestic animals did not supplant traditional animals and were not adopted at all by some communities on the Atlantic coastal plain (Figure 10.1). There is also little evidence that changes occurred in other aspects of animal use. Those changes that did occur indicate these were shaped by previous indigenous experiences rather than by European models.