“…The study of artifacts whose forms and decorations bring together elements from multiple cultural traditions has been a recurring theme in the archaeology of culture contact, colonialism, and imperialism. However, scholars have disagreed sharply about what to call such objects and how to make sense of themperhaps most saliently, in a series of recent discussions focused on the concept of cultural hybridity and its applications in archaeology and socio-cultural anthropology (Antonaccio, 2003;Card, 2013;Jiménez, 2011;Liebmann, 2015, Loren, 2015, Palmié, 2013, Silliman, 2015Stockhammer, 2012;Tronchetti and Van Dommelen, 2005;Van Dommelen, 1997;Van Dommelen and Stein, 2005;van Pelt, 2013;VanValkenburgh, 2013).…”