Robin A. Beck Christopher B. Rodning David G. Moore
"An insightful analysis of the excavations of the most exciting Spanish colonial site to be found in recent years."--Marvin T. Smith, author of Coosa: The Rise and Fall of a Southeastern Mississippian Chiefdom "A rich chronicle of the rise and fall of Spanish imperial ambitions in the North American interior."--Charles R. Ewen, coauthor of Hernando de Soto Among the Apalachee
Established in 1566 by Spanish conquistador Juan Pardo, Fort San Juan is the earliest known European settlement in the interior United States. Located at the Berry site in western North...
"An insightful analysis of the excavations of the most exciting Spanish colonial site to be found in recent years."--Marvin T. Smith, author of Coo...
Forging Southeastern Identities: Social Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Mississippian to Early Historic South, a groundbreaking collection of ten essays, covers a broad expanse of time--from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries--and focuses on a common theme of identity. These essays represent the various methods used by esteemed scholars today to study how Native Americans in the distant past created new social identities when old ideas of the self were challenged by changes in circumstance or by historical contingencies. Archaeologists, anthropologists, and folklorists...
Forging Southeastern Identities: Social Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Mississippian to Early Historic South, a groundbreaking collection ...
