"The Forgotten Centuries" draws together seventeen essays in which
historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists attempt for the
first time to account for approximately two centuries that are
virtually missing from the history of a large portion of the
American South.
Using the chronicles of the Spanish soldiers and adventurers,
the contributors survey the emergence and character of the
chiefdoms of the Southeast. In addition, they offer new scholarly
interpretations of the expeditions of Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon from
1521 to 1526, Panfilo de Narvaez in 1528, and most particularly
Hernando de Soto in 1539-43, as well as several expeditions
conducted between 1597 and 1628.
The essays in this volume address three other connected topics.
Describing some of the major chiefdoms--Apalachee, the "Oconee"
Province, Cofitachequi, and Coosa--the essays undertake to lay bare
the social principles by which they operated. They also explore the
major forces of structural change that were to transform the
chiefdoms: disease and depopulation, the Spanish mission system,
and the English deerskin and slave trades. And finally, they
examine how these forces shaped the history of several subsequent
southeastern Indian societies, including the Apalachees, Powhatans,
Creeks, and Choctaws. These societies, the so-called native
societies of the Old South, were, in fact, new ones formed in the
crucible fired by the economic expansion of the early modern
world.
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