Native and Spanish New Worlds: Sixteenth-Century Entradas in the American Southwest and Southeast

About the Contributors

About the Contributors robin a. beck, jr., is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and an Assistant Curator at the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology . His interests include the archaeology of late prehistoric societies and the Contact period in the US Southeast, and architecture in the ancient Andes. He has written about Native American chiefdoms and Spanish expeditions in the US Southeast, the effects of early European contact on Native American societies, and archaeological theory about events and social transformations. dennis b. blanton served as Curator, Native American Archaeology at Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta from 2005 to 2011; he now resides in Costa Rica. His research interests include sixteenthand seventeenth-century Indian–Spanish interaction in the Southeast and broader questions concerning the role of climate and weather in human affairs. Earlier work in the Middle Atlantic region, including at Jamestown, focused on similar topics. richard c. chapman has been Director of the Office of Contract Archeology at the University of New Mexico since 2000, having served in research, project director, and assistant director capacities for the of- fice since 1984. Chapman has forty-five years experience in cultural resource survey, excavation, and analysis throughout New Mexico and adjacent states, and holds a Research Associate Professor appointment with the UNM Anthropology Department. His research interests include prehistoric lithic artifact analysis, regional-scale settlement dynamics , and processes of social and economic change undergone by prehistoric and early historical cultural groups. He has taught courses in Southwestern Archaeology and Cultural Resource Management, and has supervised, directed, and published dozens of cultural resource project reports concerning the prehistory and early history of Middle Rio Grande valley of New Mexico. 368 About the Contributors cindy k. dongoske and kurt e. dongoske are both archaeologists with broad experience in the Four Corners region and the Northern Southwest. They have a particular interest in anthropological and archaeological collaboration with Native communities and have written extensively about the development of Indigenous archaeologies. Cindy and Kurt have worked for a number of years with the Hopi and Zuni communities, and are currently working on a range of cultural resource management and research projects with their Zuni colleagues. robbie ethridge is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Mississippi. In addition to writing several articles and book chapters on the ethnohistory of the Southeastern Indians, she is the author of Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World (2003), coeditor, along with Charles Hudson, of The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540– 1760 (2002), and coeditor with Thomas J. Pluckhahn of Light on the Path: The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians (2006). Her latest co-edited volume is Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South (2009), coedited with Sherri Shuck-Hall, and her latest monograph is From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540–1715 (2010). charles r. ewen is a Professor of Anthropology and the director of the Phelps Archaeology Laboratory at East Carolina University. His research interests focus on the Contact and Early Colonial Periods of the Southeastern United States and Caribbean. His publications on Spanish Colonialism include From Spaniard to Creole (1991) and, with John Hann, Hernando de Soto among the Apalachee: The Archaeology of the First Winter Encampment (1998). Recently he coedited X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy (2006) with Russ Skowronek. richard flint and shirley cushing flint are independent historians whose major research has been, for thirty years, on the Vázquez de Coronado expedition, its motivations, context, and aftermath. Both together and separately, they have published many articles and five books about the expedition. Three more books are in the works, including A Most Splendid Company: Members of the Coronado Expedition, About the Contributors 369 which is the result of four years of concerted research in many archives in Mexico and Spain. The Flints live in New Mexico. They are Research Associate Professors in the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico, and Research Associates in History at the Center for Desert Archaeology in Tucson. henri d. grissino-mayer is a Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Tennessee, where he directs the university’s Laboratory of Tree-Ring Science. He specializes in dendrochronology , primarily using techniques in the tree-ring sciences to reconstruct past...