Between Contacts and Colonies: Archaeological Perspectives on the Protohistoric Southeast

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Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix 1. Protohistory and Archaeology: An Overview Cameron B. Wesson and Mark A. Rees 1 2. Human Ecology at the Edge of History Kristen J. Gremillion 12 3. Seasonality, Sedentism, Subsistence, and Disease in the Protohistoric: Archaeological versus Ethnohistoric Data along the Lower Atlantic Coast Rebecca Saunders 32 4. Caddoan Area Protohistory and Archaeology Timothy K. Perttula 49 5. William Bartram and the Archaeology of the Appalachian Summit Christopher B. Rodning 67 6. “As caves beneath the ground”: Making Sense of Aboriginal House Form in the Protohistoric and Historic Southeast David J. Hally 90 7. Prestige Goods, Symbolic Capital, and Social Power in the Protohistoric Southeast Cameron B. Wesson 110 8. Warfare in the Protohistoric Southeast: 1500–1700 David H. Dye 126 9. Elite Actors in the Protohistoric: Elite Identities and Interaction with Europeans in the Apalachee and Powhatan Chiefdoms John F. Scarry and Mintcy D. Maxham 142 10. Subsistence Economy and Political Culture in the Protohistoric Central Mississippi Valley Mark A. Rees 170 References 199 Contributors 261 Index 263 vi / Contents ...