Archaeological Analysis
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Colonialism
Comparative Regional Histories
Conquistadors
Contact Period
Deep History
Early expeditions
Early Modern Warfare
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Material Culture Studies
Native European Impacts
Native-European Exchange
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- ISBN 9781683401582
- Weight: 745g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 22 Sep 2020
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In Modeling Entradas, Clay Mathers brings together leading archaeologists working across the American South to offer a comprehensive, comparative analysis of Spanish entrada assemblages. These expeditions into the interior of the North American continent were among the first contacts between New- and Old-World communities, and the study of how they were organized and the routes they took—based on the artifacts they left behind—illuminates much about the sixteenth-century indigenous world and the colonizing efforts of Spain. Focusing on the entradas of conquistadors Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Hernando de Soto, Tristán de Luna y Arellano, and Juan Pardo, contributors offer insights from recently discovered sites including encampments, battlefields, and shipwrecks. Using the latest interpretive perspectives, they turn the narrative of conquest from a simple story of domination to one of happenstance, circumstance, and interactions between competing social, political, and cultural worlds. These essays delve into the dynamic relationships between Native Americans and Europeans in a variety of contexts including exchange, disease, conflict, and material production.This volume offers valuable models for evaluating, synthesizing, and comparing early expeditions, showing how object-oriented and site-focused analyses connect to the anthropological dimensions of early contact, patterns of regional settlement, and broader historical trajectories such as globalization. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
Clay Mathers, a registered professional archaeologist based in Albuquerque, is the coeditor of Native and Spanish New Worlds: Sixteenth-Century Entradas in the American Southwest and Southeast and Heritage of Value, Archaeology of Renown: Reshaping Archaeological Assessment and Significance.
