The years 1500–1700 AD 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.
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Introduction
1. Carden Bottoms: Indigenous Responses to Europeans on the Far Reaches of the Mississippian Shatter
George Sabo III, Jerry E. Hilliard, Leslie C. Walker, Jami J. Lockhart, Ann M. Early, and Rebecca L. F. Wiewel
2. The Early Contact Period in the Black Prairie of Northeast Mississippi
Edmond A. Boudreaux, III, Charles R. Cobb, Emily Clark, Chester B. DePratter, James Legg, Brad R. Lieb, Allison M. Smith, and Steven D. Smith
3. Oliver and Orchard Thumbnail Scrapers, a Technological and Source-Area Analysis
Jay K. Johnson and Ryan M. Parish
4. Tracking an Entrada by Comparative Analysis of sixteenth-Century Archaeological Assemblages from the Southeast
Dennis B. Blanton
5. Spanish Florida and the Southeastern Indians, 1513-1650
John E. Worth
6. New Frontier, Old Frontier
Ramie A. Gougeon
7. Avoidance Strategies of a Displaced Post-Mississippian Society on the Northern Gulf Coast, circa 1710
Gregory A. Waselkov and Philip J. Carr
8. 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
Nathan K. Shreve, Jay D. Franklin, Eileen G. Ernenwein, Maureen A. Hays, and Ilaria Patania
9. From the Coast to the Mountains: Marine Shell Artifacts at Cherokee Towns in the Southern Appalachians
Christopher B. Rodning
10. Life at the Frontier of the sixteenth-seventeenth Century World Economy: Fort Ancient Hide Production at the Hardin Site, Greenup County, Kentucky
Matthew Davidson
11. The Seventeenth-Century Native-Colonial Borderlands of Savannah River Valley
Maureen Meyers
12. Yamasee Mobility: Responding to European Colonization through Old and New Strategies
Denise I. Bossy
13. Differential Responses Across the Southeast to European Incursions: A Conclusion
Robbie Ethridge
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Contributors
Contributors