Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern United States

Edmond A. Boudreaux III, Maureen Meyers, Jay K. Johnson

• Publisher: University of Florida Press
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781683401360
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

The years AD 1500–1700 were a time of dramatic change for the indigenous inhabitants of southeastern North America, yet Native histories during this era have been difficult to reconstruct due to a scarcity of written records before the eighteenth century. Using archaeology to enhance our knowledge of the period, Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern United States presents new research on the ways Native societies responded to early contact with Europeans. Featuring sites from Kentucky to Mississippi to Florida, these case studies investigate how indigenous groups were affected by the expeditions of explorers such as Hernando de Soto, Pánfilo de Narváez, and Juan Pardo. Contributors re-create the social geography of the Southeast during this time, trace the ways Native institutions changed as a result of colonial encounters, and emphasize the agency of indigenous populations in situations of contact. They demonstrate the importance of understanding the economic, political, and social variability that existed between Native and European groups. Bridging the gap between historical records and material artifacts, this volume answers many questions and opens up further avenues for exploring these transformative centuries, pushing the field of early contact studies in new theoretical and methodological directions. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Table of contents

• Cover
• CONTACT, COLONIALISM, AND NATIVE COMMUNITIES IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Carden Bottoms: Indigenous Responses to Europeans on the Far Reaches of the Mississippian Shatter Zone
• 3. The Early Contact Period in the Black Prairie of Northeast Mississippi
• 4. Oliver and Orchard Thumbnail Scrapers: A Technological and Source-Area Analysis
• 5. Tracking an Entrada by Comparative Analysis of Sixteenth-Century Archaeological Assemblages from the Southeast
• 6. Spanish Florida and the Southeastern Indians, 1513–1650
• 7. New Frontier, Old Frontier
• 8. Avoidance Strategies of a Displaced Post-Mississippian Society on the Northern Gulf Coast, circa 1710
• 9. An Arc of Interaction, a Flow of People, and Emergent Identity: Early Contact Period Archaeology and Early European Interactions in the Middle Nolichucky Valley of Upper East Tennessee
• 10. From the Coast to the Mountains: Marine Shell Artifacts at Cherokee Towns in the Southern Appalachians
• 11. Life at the Frontier of the Sixteenth–Seventeenth-Century World Economy: Fort Ancient Hide Production at the Hardin Site, Greenup County, Kentucky
• 12. The Seventeenth-Century Native-Colonial Borderlands of the Savannah River Valley
• 13. Yamasee Mobility: Mississippian Roots, Seventeenth-Century Strategies
• 14. Differential Responses across the Southeast to European Incursions: A Conclusion
• References Cited
• List of Contributors
• Index