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Societies in Eclipse: Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands Indians, a.D. 1400-1700,
Author(s): David G. Anderson (Author), James W. Bradley (Author), James A. Brown (Author), R.P.Stephen Davis (Author), Penelope B. Drooker (Author), William R. Fitzgerald (Author), Jeffrey L. Hantman (Author), D.S. Brose (Editor), C.Wesley Cowan (Editor), Robert C. Mainfort (Editor)
- Publisher: University of Alabama Press
- Publication Date: 4 Nov. 2005
- Edition: First Edition, First ed.
- Language: English
- Print length: 300 pages
- ISBN-10: 0817353526
- ISBN-13: 9780817353520
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“The hemispheric collision set in motion by the 1492 voyage of Christopher Columbus created a dynamic new world, one bringing both tribulations and challenges to the American Indians of the eastern United States. From the Great Lakes to Florida, Indian societies sought to adjust to disease-caused demographic disasters and the European presence even as they dealt with new ideas and took advantage of new economic ventures . . . In this well-documented volume, a host of scholars examine the evidence for these changes within fourteen eastern Woodlands Indian areas. Analyzing archaeological evidence from late pre-Columbian time to 1700, they provide an informative perspective on the impact of the European settlement on the histories of American Indians.”
–Jerald T. Milanich, author of Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians
–Jerald T. Milanich, author of Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians
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.
