Modeling Entradas

Sixteenth-Century Assemblages in North America

Clay Mathers

• Publisher: University of Florida Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781683401582
• eBook ISBN: 9781683401865
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

In Modeling Entradas, Clay Mathers brings together leading archaeologists working across the American South to offer a comprehensive, comparative analysis of Spanish entrada assemblages. These expeditions into the interior of the North American continent were among the first contacts between New- and Old-World communities, and the study of how they were organized and the routes they took—based on the artifacts they left behind—illuminates much about the sixteenth-century indigenous world and the colonizing efforts of Spain.

Focusing on the entradas of conquistadors Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Hernando de Soto, Tristán de Luna y Arellano, and Juan Pardo, contributors offer insights from recently discovered sites including encampments, battlefields, and shipwrecks. Using the latest interpretive perspectives, they turn the narrative of conquest from a simple story of domination to one of happenstance, circumstance, and interactions between competing social, political, and cultural worlds. These essays delve into the dynamic relationships between Native Americans and Europeans in a variety of contexts including exchange, disease, conflict, and material production.

This volume offers valuable models for evaluating, synthesizing, and comparing early expeditions, showing how object-oriented and site-focused analyses connect to the anthropological dimensions of early contact, patterns of regional settlement, and broader historical trajectories such as globalization.

Contributors: Robin A. Beck | Edmond A. Boudreaux III?| John R. Bratten | Charles Cobb | Chester B. DePratter | Munir Humayun | David J. Hally | Ned J. Jenkins | James B. Legg | Brad R. Lieb | Michael Marshall | Clay Mathers | Jeffrey M. Mitchem | David G. Moore | Christopher B. Rodning | Daniel Seinfeld | Craig T. Sheldon Jr. | Marvin T. Smith | Steven D. Smith | John E. Worth

A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Table of contents

• Cover
• Modeling Entradas
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Foreword
• Preface
• 1. Introduction: The Destiny of Their Manifests; Entrada Assemblages and the Challenge and Promise of Modeling Deep History
• 2. Distinguishing and Modeling Site Types in the Tiguex Province, New Mexico: Moho, Alcanfor, and the Struggle for Northern New Spain (1540–1542)
• 3. The Stark Farm Enigma: Evidence of the Chicasa (Chikasha)-Soto Encounter in Mississippi?
• 4. Artifacts of the Soto and Luna y Arellano Expeditions in Alabama
• 5. New Insights from Elemental Analysis of Chevron Beads from Contact Period Sites in the Southeastern United States
• 6. The Materials of Colonization: Archaeological and Documentary Traces of Tristán de Luna y Arellano’s Colonial Fleet
• 7. Material Culture in Northern La Florida: Impoverishment, Improvisation, Innovation, and Interaction
• 8. The Hernando de Soto and Tristán de Luna y Arellano Expeditions in Central Alabama, 1540–1560: Routes, Cultures, and Consequences
• 9. The Acquisition of Sixteenth-Century European Objects by Native Americans in the Southeastern United States
• Conclusion: Looking Forward and Making it Count; Improving Entrada Models
• Works Cited
• List of Contributors
• Index