"Indian and European Contact in Context" ed. by Dennis B. Blanton and Julia A. King
The Society for Historical Archaeology
SHA / University Press of Florida | 2004 | ISBN: 0813027802 9780813027807 9780813036748 | 385 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This volume offers new perspectives on the early contact period (A.D. 1500-1750) in the Mid-Atlantic. While other scholarly books that examine "cultural contact" have traditionally viewed the issue through a single lens, this collection offers a strikingly different picture by collecting a variety of archaeological and ethnohistorical perspectives to formulate an interdisciplinary investigation.
Between the 16th and 19th centuries as indigenous Native Americans, colonizing Europeans, and Africans came into sustained contact in North America, their cultures underwent a variety of complex transformations.
The strength of the essaysis the commitment to integrating the archaeological data on an equal basis with the well-known ethnohistoric and historic sources of the region.
Contents List of Figures
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Introduction
1. The Climate Factor in Late Prehistoric and Post-Contact Human Affairs
2. Reconnecting the Contact Period and Late Prehistory: Household and Community Dynamics in the James River Basin
3. Analytical Scale and Archaeological Perspectives on the Contact Era in the Northern Neck of Virginia
4. The Chesapeake Hinterlands: Contact-Period Archaeology in the Upper Potomac Valley
5. "The Country here is very thick of Indian Towns and Plantations . . Tuscarora Settlement Patterns as Revealed by the Contentnea Creek Survey
6. Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown
7. Evolutionary Archaeology and the Contact Period: A Case Study from Virginia and North Carolina
8. “Their Complement of Deer-Skins and Furs": Changing Patterns of White-Tailed Deer Exploitation in the Seventeenth-Century Southern Chesapeake and Virginia Hinterlands
9. Did the Chesapeake English Have a Contact Period?
10. Last Refuge: Tribal Preserves in Eastern Virginia
11. The Colonoware Question and the Indian Bowl Trade in Colonial Somerset County, Maryland
12. "The Foundacion of All Other Greate Works": The Strange Career of the 1634 Middle Plantation Palisade
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