Alabama and the Borderlands: From Prehistory To Statehood

Contents

Contents Illustrations vii Preface ix Introduction I Part I The Prehistoric Background 14 I Richard A. Krause Trends and Trajectories in American Archaeology: Some Questions about the Mississippian Period in Southeastern Prehistory I? 2 James B. Griffin Changing Concepts of the Prehistoric Mississippian Cultures of the Eastern United States 40 3 Bruce D. Smith Mississippian Patterns of Subsistence and Settlement 64 Part II The Age of Exploration 81 4 John H. Parry Early European Penetration of Eastern North America 83 CONTENTS 5 Jeffrey P. Brain The Archaeology of the Hernando de Soto Expedition 96 6 Chester B. DePratter, Charles M. Hudson, and Marvin T. Smith The Hernando de Soto Expedition: From Chiaha to Mabila ro8 7 Charles H. Fairbanks From Exploration to Settlement: Spanish Strategies for Colonization I28 Part III Colonization and Conflict 141 8 Wilcomb E. Washburn The Southeast in the Age of Conflict and Revolution 143 9 Eugene Lyon Continuity in the Age of Conquest: The Establishment of Spanish Sovereignty in the Sixteenth Century 154 10 William S. Coker and Hazel P. Coker The Siege of Mobile, 1780, in Maps 162 II Michael C. Scardaville Approaches to the Study of the Southeastern Borderlands 184 Notes 197 Bibliography 223 Contributors 238 Index 241 vi ...