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.
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