Between contacts and colonies [[electronic resource] ] : archaeological perspectives on the protohistoric Southeast / / edited by Cameron B. Wesson and Mark A. Rees

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457911803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2002
• ISBN: 0-8173-8474-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): WessonCameron B. <1968->; ReesMark A
• Disciplina: 975/.01
• Soggetti: Indians of North America - Southern States - Antiquities; Indians of North America - Southern States - History; Electronic books.; Southern States Antiquities Congresses
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Papers presented at a symposium held in 1997 during the 54th annual Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Baton Rouge, La.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; 8. Warfare in the Protohistoric Southeast: 1500-17009. Elite Actors in the Protohistoric: Elite Identities and Interaction with Europeans in the Apalachee and Powhatan Chiefdom; 10. Subsistence Economy and Political Culture in the Protohistoric Central Mississippi Valley; References; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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