Introduction
Dennis B. Blanton and Julia A. King
1. The Climate Factor in Late Prehistoric and Post-Contact Human Affairs
Dennis B. Blanton
2. Reconnecting the Contact Period and Late Prehistory: Household and Community Dynamics in the James River Basin
Martin D. Gallivan
3. Analytical Scale and Archaeological Perspectives on the Contact Era in the Northern Neck of Virginia
Michael J. Klein and Douglas W. Sanford
4. The Chesapeake Hinterlands: Contact-Period Archaeology in the Upper Potomac Valley
Robert D. Wall
5. "The Country here is very thick of Indian Towns and Plantations . . .": Tuscarora Settlement Patterns as Revealed by the Contentnea Creek Survey
John E. Byrd and Charles L. Heath
6. Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown
Seth W. Mallios
7. Evolutionary Archaeology and the Contact Period: A Case Study from Virginia and North Carolina
Clifford Boyd
8. "Their Complement of Deer-Skins and Furs": Changing Patterns of White-Tailed Deer Exploitation in the 17th-Century Southern Chesapeake and Virginia Hinterlands
Heather Lapham
9. Did the Chesapeake English Have a Contact Period?
Julia A. King and Edward E. Chaney
10. Last Refuge: Tribal Preserves in Eastern Virginia
Martha W. McCartney
11. The Colonoware Question and the Indian Bowl Trade in Colonial Somerset County, Maryland
Thomas E. Davidson
12. "The Foundacion of All Other Greate Works": The Strange Career of the 1634 Middle Plantation Palisade
Philip Levy
