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Archaeology of Aboriginal Culture Change in the Interior Southeast - Depopulation during the Early Historic Period (Paperback)
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Archaeology of Aboriginal Culture Change in the Interior Southeast - Depopulation during the Early Historic Period (Paperback)
Series: Monographs in Anthropology & History
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Members of Hernando de Soto's 1540 march through the interior of
the southeastern US, as well as other explorers at that time,
described encounters with complex and powerful Indian chiefdoms.
Until this work by Marvin T. Smith, first published in 1987,
scholars had argued about the role that Europeans played in the
disintegration of that Mississippian culture. Rejecting the notion
that the aboriginal nations acculturated to a European pattern,
Smith shows that Old World epidemic diseases caused immediate
population loss in interior areas. He develops a chronological
framework for the period 1540-1670 based on European trade goods,
which allows him to date the aboriginal sites and to examine the
tempo of demographic shifts with more precision than archaeologists
before him commanded. The effects of early European contact -
documented with data that include artifacts associated with burial
practices, public works, and craft specialisation - travelled
farther than the European explorers themselves, as depopulation led
to political breakdown and social collapse. One product of this
collapse, Smith argues, was the Creek Confederacy of the 18th
century, a mix of refugee populations who banded together in
defence of alliances against the Europeans and other Indians.
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