Dieta y alimentación hispano-americana en el Caribe y la Florida en el siglo XVI

Abstract

European colonizing efforts were more successful in those places where European plants and animals adapted more easily. This would seem to indicate that Old World domesticated plants and animals either flourished or did not, but in fact the animals went through a period of adaptation to their new locations, influencing in turn the ways in which colonists adapted to their new environment. Examples of the degrees of adaptation of settlers and animals have been taken from the Spanish sixteenth-century colonization of Hispaniola, Cubagua and Florida, and show that in all cases European animals were present but that their importance in human diet varied considerably.