Format:
Online-Ressource (281 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780817311674
Content:
This collection of essays brings together diverse approaches to the analysis of Native American culture in the protohistoric period. For most Native American peoples of the Southeast, almost two centuries passed between first contact with European explorers in the 16th century and colonization by whites in the 18th century-a temporal span commonly referred to as the Protohistoric period. A recent flurry of interest in this period by archaeologists armed with an improved understanding of the complexity of culture contact situations and important new theoretical paradigms has illuminated a form
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Protohistory and Archaeology: An Overview; 2. Human Ecology at the Edge of History; 3. Seasonality, Sedentism, Subsistence, and Disease in the Protohistoric: Archaeological versus Ethnohistoric Data along the Lower Atlantic Coast; 4. Caddoan Area Protohistory and Archaeology; 5. William Bartram and the Archaeology of the Appalachian Summit; 6. "As caves beneath the ground": Making Sense of Aboriginal House Form in the Protohistoric and Historic Southeast; 7. Prestige Goods, Symbolic Capital, and Social Power in the Protohistoric Southeast
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8. Warfare in the Protohistoric Southeast: 1500-17009. Elite Actors in the Protohistoric: Elite Identities and Interaction with Europeans in the Apalachee and Powhatan Chiefdoms; 10. Subsistence Economy and Political Culture in the Protohistoric Central Mississippi Valley; References; Contributors; Index;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817384746
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817312534
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Between Contacts and Colonies : Archaeological Perspectives on the Protohistoric Southeast
Language:
English
Keywords:
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