Members of Hernando de Soto's 1540 march through the interior of the southeastern US, as well as other explorers at that time, described encounters with complex and powerful Indian chiefdoms. Until this work by Marvin T. Smith, first published in 1987, scholars had argued about the role that Europeans played in the disintegration of that Mississippian culture.
Members of Hernando de Soto's 1540 march through the interior of the southeastern US, as well as other explorers at that time, described encounters wi...
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Early European descriptions of North America tell about a landscape and a variety of cultures in northeast Florida--a region that had been occupied by native people for more than 10,000 years--that were unlike anything...
"Without a doubt a significant contribution to an overall understanding of northeast Florida. . . . Reveals much about land use in the state of Flo...
