First Encounters: Spanish Explorations in the Caribbean and the United States, 1492-1570 (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)

Milanich, Jerald T.; Milbrath, Susan (Edited by both)

ISBN 10: 0813009464 / ISBN 13: 9780813009469

Published by University Press of Florida, 1989

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no edition or printing stated only copyright date 1989 - 1st ed/1st printing as at date of publication this publisher only stated later printings - Inscribed and Signed by Susan Milbrath on half title page, light soiling/foxing to edges of text block - light foxing to front/rear end papers, dj now enclosed in mylar wrap shows edge wear with light fading to spine - 3/4" tear with associated 13/4" and 61/2" creases to bottom edge and 2 trace lines (5" and 6" long) from right center to lower center of rear panel, illustrated with drawings, black & white and colorized maps, black & white and color reproductions of paintings and color photographs.

Seller Inventory # BX-159-C

Bibliographic Details

• Title: First Encounters: Spanish Explorations in the Caribbean and the United States, 1492-1570 (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813009464
• ISBN 13: 9780813009469
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Drawing on the most recent historical and archaeological research, "First Encounters" describes the period of early Spanish contact with New World peoples. This series of essays reports original research mounted over the last ten years, a decade of remarkable breakthroughs in knowledge about significant events in the first decades after 1492. In non-technical language the authors invite us to play Watson to their Sherlockian investigations. We are made privy to the modus operandi of anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians as they assemble clues from historic documents, topographic features, and excavated artifacts to map out the neighbourhood boundaries of Puerto Rial, Hispaniola, abandoned in 1578, or to establish which sites in the South East United States can legitimately claim that "de Soto slept here". We learn how Columbus's ship "Nina" must have smelled on her 1498 voyage, and how the discovery of a pig mandible helped nail down the site of Anhaica, de Soto's 1539-1540 winter camp.

From the Back Cover

Here we find new understandings of the routes of the explorers beginning with Columbus, new information on the first European settlements, and more accurate knowledge of the peoples and conditions on both sides of the Atlantic at the time of first contact.