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Indian and European Contact in Context: The Mid-Atlantic Region » (First)

Book cover image of Indian and European Contact in Context: The Mid-Atlantic Region by Dennis B. Blanton

Authors: Dennis B. Blanton (Editor), Julia A. King
ISBN-13: 9780813027807, ISBN-10: 0813027802
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Date Published: December 2004
Edition: First

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Author Biography: Dennis B. Blanton

Dennis B. Blanton is director of the Center for Archaeological Research at the College of William and Mary and adjunct instructor of anthropology.
 
Julia A. King is director of the Maryland Archaeology Conservation Laboratory at the Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum and adjunct associate professor of anthropology at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

Book Synopsis

Between the 16th and 19th centuries as indigenous Native Americans, colonizing Europeans, and Africans came into sustained contact in North America, their cultures underwent a variety of complex transformations. While other scholarly books that examine "cultural contact" have traditionally viewed the issue through a single lens, this collection offers a strikingly different picture by collecting a variety of archaeological and ethnohistorical perspectives to formulate an interdisciplinary investigation.

Table of Contents

Introduction1
1The climate factor in late prehistoric and post-contact human affairs6
2Reconnecting the contact period and late prehistory : household and community dynamics in the James River Basin22
3Analytical scale and archaeological perspectives on the contact era in the northern neck of Virginia47
4The Chesapeake hinterlands : contact-period archaeology in the upper Potomac Valley74
5"The country here is very thick of Indian towns and plantations ..." : Tuscarora settlement patterns as revealed by the Contentnea Creek survey98
6Exchange and violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown126
7Evolutionary archaeology and the contact period : a case study from Virginia and North Carolina149
8"Their complement of deer-skins and furs" : changing patterns of white-tailed deer exploitation in the seventeenth-century southern Chesapeake and Virginia hinterlands172
9Did the Chesapeake English have a contact period?193
10Last refuge : tribal preserves in eastern Virginia222
11The colonoware question and the Indian bowl trade in colonial Somerset County, Maryland244
12"The foundacion of all other greate works" : the strange career of the 1634 middle plantation palisade265

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