During the two centuries following European contact, the world of late prehistoric Mississippian chiefdoms collapsed and Native communities there fragmented, migrated, coalesced, and reorganized into new and often quite different societies. The editors of this volume, Robbie Ethridge and Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, argue that such a period and region of instability and regrouping constituted a shatter zone. In this anthology, archaeologists, ethnohistorians, and anthropologists analyze the shatter zone created in the colonial Southby examining the interactions of American Indians and European...