Societies in Eclipse: Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands Indians, a.D. 1400-1700 - Softcover

Anderson, David G.; Bradley, James W.; Brown, James A.; Davis, R.P.Stephen; Drooker, Penelope B.; Fitzgerald, William R.; Hantman, Jeffrey L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0817353526 ISBN 13: 9780817353520

Publisher: University of Alabama Press, 2005

Synopsis

While contact with explorers, missionaries, and traders made a significant impact on natives of the Eastern Woodlands, Indian peoples cannot be solely understood from the historical record. Here, in ""Societies in Eclipse"", archaeologists combine recent research with insights from anthropology, historiography, and oral tradition to examine the cultural landscape preceding and immediately following the arrival of Europeans. The evidence suggests that native societies were in the process of significant cultural transformation prior to contact.

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About the Author

David S. Brose, Director of Cranbrook Institute of Science and founding editor of The Mid-Continental Journal of Archaeology, is author, editor, or co-editor of many professional works, including The 1838-42 U.S. Exploring Expedition and American Science in the Age of Sail, and the National Historic Landmark Study, Earliest Americans of the Eastern United States. C. Wesley Cowan is a retired anthropologist and museum curator, founder and owner of Cowan's Auctions, Inc., a star on the PBS series, History Detectives, and a frequent appraiser on Antiques Roadshow. Robert C. Mainfort Jr. is an archaeologist with the Arkansas Archeological Survey in Fayetteville, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas, and co-editor of his latest volume, Woodland Period Systematics in the Middle Ohio Valley.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Alabama Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0817353526
• ISBN 13: 9780817353520
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Brose D.S., Cowan C.Wesley, Mainfort Robert C.