David S. Brose & C. Wesley Cowan 
Societies in Eclipse [EPUB ebook] 
Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands Indians, A.D. 1400-1700

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Combines recent research with insights from anthropology, historiography, and oral tradition to examine the cultural landscape preceding and immediately following the arrival of Europeans After establishing the distribution of prehistoric and historic populations from the northeastern Appalachian forests to the southern trans-Mississippian prairies, the contributors consider the archaeological and cultural record of several specific groups, including Mohawk and Onondaga, Monacan, Coosa, and Calusa. For each, they present new evidence of cultural changes prior to European contact, including populations movements triggered by the Little Ice Age (AD 1550 1770), shifting exchange and warfare networks, geological restriction of effective maize subsistence, and use of empty hunting territories as buffers between politically unstable neighbors. The contributors also trace European influences, including the devastation caused by European-introduced epidemics and the paths of European trade goods that transformed existing Native American-exchange networks.While the profound effects of European explorers, missionaries, and traders on Eastern Woodlands tribes cannot be denied, the archaeological evidence suggests that several indigenous societies were already in the process of redefinition prior to European contact. The essays gathered here show that, whether formed in response to natural or human forces, cultural change may be traced through archaeological artifacts, which play a critical role in answering current questions regarding cultural persistence.

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Мова Англійська ● Формат EPUB ● ISBN 9780817383398 ● Редактор David S. Brose & C. Wesley Cowan ● Видавець University of Alabama Press ● Опубліковано 2005 ● Завантажувані 3 разів ● Валюта EUR ● Посвідчення особи 5000305 ● Захист від копіювання Adobe DRM
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